Alcohol in the Maghreb and the Middle East since the Nineteenth century : disputes, policies and practices / Elife Biçer-Deveci, Philippe Bourmaud, editors.
Biçer-Deveci, Elife, editor.; Bourmaud, Philippe, 1974- editor.
2021
GT2884 .A53 2021eb
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Title Alcohol in the Maghreb and the Middle East since the Nineteenth century : disputes, policies and practices / Elife Biçer-Deveci, Philippe Bourmaud, editors.
ISBN 9783030840013 (electronic bk.)
3030840018 (electronic bk.)
9783030840020
3030840026
9783030840037
3030840034
9783030840006
303084000X
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84001-3
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-84001-3 doi
Call Number GT2884 .A53 2021eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 394.13
Summary This book explores the significance of alcohol in the Middle East and Maghreb as a powerful catalyst of social and political division. It shows that the solidarities and polarities created by disputes over alcohol are built on arguments far more complex than oppositions on religion or consumption alone. In a region in which alcohol is banned by Islamic rules, yet allows its production and consumption, alcohol has always been contentious. However, this volume examines the different forms of social authority religious, cultural and political to offer a new understanding of drinking behaviours in the Middle East and North Africa. It suggests that alcohol, being at the same time an import and product of local industry, epitomises the tensions inherent to the conforming of Islamic societies to global trends, which seek to redefine political communities, social hierarchies and gender roles. The chapters challenge common misconceptions about alcohol in this region, arguing instead that medical discourses on alcohol dependency hide stances on national independence in an imperialist context; that the focus on religion also tends to conceal disputes on alcohol as a social struggle; and that disputes on inebriation are more about masculinity than judging private leisure. In doing so, the volume presents alcohol as a way of grasping the power relations that structure the societies of the Middle East and Maghreb.
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Added Author Biçer-Deveci, Elife, editor.
Bourmaud, Philippe, 1974- editor.
Series St. Antony's series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Introduction:Part 1: Science and Politics
Chapter 1 : Turkeys Prohibition in 1920: Modernising an Islamic Law
Chapter 2 : Unknowable Social Problems or Competing Regimes of Truth ?
Chapter 3 : Ordinary Drinking ? Place and Politics of Alcohol in Lebanon
Part 2: Normative systems and negotiated interests
Chapter 4: Alcohol and Religious Practices in Meknes (Morocco): Between Rejection and Compromise
Chapter 5:Morocco, the most prohibitive of the French colonies (1912-1956)?
Chapter 6: Drinking in Turkey: From a Social Coexistence to an Ideological Confrontation
Part 3 : Contested spaces
Chapter 7 : Drinking in Times of Change: The Hanunting Presence of Alcohol in Egypt
Chapter 8: Production and Consumption of Alcohol in Ramallah: Steadfastness, Religion and Urban Rhytms
Part 4: Chapter 9: Epilogue.

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