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Leisurely Islam : negotiating geography and morality in Shi'ite South Beirut /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Deeb, Lara, 1974-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Harb, Mona
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Series:Princeton studies in Muslim politics.
Subjects:
Leisure > Lebanon > Beirut.
Shiites > Lebanon > Beirut.
Recreation areas > Lebanon > Beirut.
Leisure > Religious aspects > Islam.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Exploring leisure, morality, and geography in South Beirut
  • New leisure in South Beirut
  • Producing Islamic fun: Hizbullah, Fadlallah, and the entrepreneurs
  • Mapping leisure and cafĂ© styles
  • Flexible morality, respectful choices, smaller transgressions
  • Comforting territory, new urban experiences, and the moral city
  • Good taste, leisure's moral spaces, and sociopolitical change in Lebanon
  • Appendix : Quoted figures and characters.