Alcohol in the Maghreb and the Middle East since the Nineteenth Century : Disputes, Policies and Practices /

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 al...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Biçer-Deveci, Elife (Editor), Bourmaud, Philippe (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Edition:	1st ed. 2021.
Series:	St Antony's Series,
Subjects:	Middle East-History. Africa, North-History. Religion-History. Civilization-History. World politics. Medicine-History. History of the Middle East. History of North Africa. History of Religion. Cultural History. Political History. History of Medicine. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction:Part 1: Science and Politics
Chapter 1 : Turkey's Prohibition in 1920: Modernising an Islamic Law
Chapter 2 : Unknowable Social Problems or Competing Régimes 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.