Alcohol in the Maghreb and the Middle East since the nineteenth century : disputes, policies and practices /

Alcohol in the Maghreb and the Middle East since the nineteenth century : disputes, policies and practices /

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Imprint:	Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG, [2021]
Description:	xi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	St Antony's series St. Antony's series.
Subject:	Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Middle East. Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Religious aspects -- Islam. Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Political aspects -- Middle East. Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Social aspects -- Middle East. Drinking of alcoholic beverages. Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Religious aspects -- Islam. Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Social aspects. Middle East.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12709047

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Other authors / contributors:	Biçer-Deveci, Elife, editor. Bourmaud, Philippe, 1974- editor.
ISBN:	9783030840006 303084000X 9783030840013
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Other form:	ebook version : 9783030840013

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