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Alcohol in the Maghreb and the Middle East since the Nineteenth Century

Disputes, Policies and Practices

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Editors:
  1. Elife Biçer-Deveci

    1. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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  2. Philippe Bourmaud

    1. Faculty of Letters and Civilizations, Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3, Lyon, France

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  • Explores the significance of alcohol in the Middle East and North Africa as a catalyst of social and political division
  • Discusses alcohol in relation to the tensions inherent to the conforming of Islamic societies to global trends
  • Chapters examine medical and public discourse on alcohol within national and imperial contexts

Part of the book series: St Antony's Series (STANTS)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Alcohol, Public Debate, and the Inescapability of Islamic References

    • Elife Biçer-Deveci, Philippe Bourmaud
    Pages 1-20

  6. Ambivalences and Anxieties

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207
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    2. Epilogue

      • Rudi Matthee
      Pages 209-224

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 225-232
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Elife Biçer-Deveci

  • Faculty of Letters and Civilizations, Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3, Lyon, France

    Philippe Bourmaud

About the editors

Elife Biçer-Deveci is a Postdoctoral Fellow at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, UK, and a Fellow of the Postdoc Mobility Grants of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

Philippe Bourmaud is Assistant Professor in Modern and Contemporary History at the Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 in France, and a member of the Rhône-Alpes Historical Research Laboratory.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Alcohol in the Maghreb and the Middle East since the Nineteenth Century

  • Book Subtitle: Disputes, Policies and Practices

  • Editors: Elife Biçer-Deveci, Philippe Bourmaud

  • Series Title: St Antony's Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84001-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84000-6Published: 12 January 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84003-7Published: 13 January 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84001-3Published: 12 January 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2633-5964

  • Series E-ISSN: 2633-5972

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 232

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of the Middle East, History of North Africa, History of Religion, Cultural History, Political History, History of Medicine

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