TY  - BOOK
AU  - Deeb,Lara
AU  - Harb,Mona
TI  - Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi'ite South Beirut 
T2  - Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
SN  - 9780691153667
AV  - BJ1498 
U1  - 306.48120956925 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Freizeitverhalten
KW  - Leisure
KW  - Lebanon
KW  - Beirut
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Islam
KW  - Moral
KW  - Recreation areas
KW  - Schiiten
KW  - Shiites
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Dahiya
KW  - Hezbollah
KW  - Hizbullah
KW  - Islamic milieu
KW  - Lebanese community
KW  - Shi'i Muslim
KW  - Shi'i Muslims
KW  - South Beirut
KW  - caf
KW  - class mobility
KW  - infitah
KW  - leisure activities
KW  - leisure practices
KW  - leisure sites
KW  - leisure spaces
KW  - leisure
KW  - marja'
KW  - moral flexibility
KW  - moral leisure
KW  - morality
KW  - personal taste
KW  - religious scholar
KW  - restaurant
KW  - sectarianism
KW  - social life
KW  - south Beirut
KW  - southern Beirut
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Preface and Acknowledgments --; Note on Language --; Introduction: Exploring Leisure, Morality, and Geography in South Beirut --; 1. New Leisure in South Beirut --; 2. Producing Islamic Fun: Hizbullah, Fadlallah, and the Entrepreneurs --; 3. Mapping Leisure and Café Styles --; 4. Flexible Morality, Respectful Choices, Smaller Transgressions --; 5. Comforting Territory, New Urban Experiences, and the Moral City --; 6. Good Taste, Leisure's Moral Spaces, and Sociopolitical Change in Lebanon --; Appendix: Quoted Figures and Characters --; Notes --; Glossary --; References --; Index --; Backmatter; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - South Beirut has recently become a vibrant leisure destination with a plethora of cafés and restaurants that cater to the young, fashionable, and pious. What effects have these establishments had on the moral norms, spatial practices, and urban experiences of this Lebanese community? From the diverse voices of young Shi'i Muslims searching for places to hang out, to the Hezbollah officials who want this media-savvy generation to be more politically involved, to the religious leaders worried that Lebanese youth are losing their moral compasses, Leisurely Islam provides a sophisticated and original look at leisure in the Lebanese capital. What makes a café morally appropriate? How do people negotiate morality in relation to different places? And under what circumstances might a pious Muslim go to a café that serves alcohol? Lara Deeb and Mona Harb highlight tensions and complexities exacerbated by the presence of multiple religious authorities, a fraught sectarian political context, class mobility, and a generation that takes religion for granted but wants to have fun. The authors elucidate the political, economic, religious, and social changes that have taken place since 2000, and examine leisure's influence on Lebanese sociopolitical and urban situations. Asserting that morality and geography cannot be fully understood in isolation from one another, Leisurely Islam offers a colorful new understanding of the most powerful community in Lebanon today
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