dc.contributor.author |
Mehra, Shantanu |
dc.date.accessioned |
2020-03-28T17:18:22Z |
dc.date.available |
2022-05 |
dc.date.available |
2020-03-28T17:18:22Z |
dc.date.issued |
2019 |
dc.date.submitted |
2019 |
dc.identifier.other |
b2354935x |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10938/21839 |
dc.description |
Thesis. M.A. American University of Beirut. Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies, 2019. T:6997. |
dc.description |
Advisor : Dr. Sylvain Perdigon, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies ; Members of Committee : Dr. Kirsten Scheid, Associate Professor, Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies ; Dr. Livia Wick, Chair, Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies. |
dc.description |
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 90-91) |
dc.description.abstract |
This thesis is a study of how Shia Muslims relate to Islam in its institutionalised form. I do an ethnographic study of life around mujammaʿ al-Qaim, which is located in the southern suburbs of Beirut popularly referred to as Dahiya. By analysing Hizbollah as both a state and non-state actor, I study how spaces like al-Qaim come to institutionalise Islam. In doing so, I locate Hizbollah and by extension al-Qaim on the margins of the modern Lebanese nation-state. Building and complicating the work done by Naveeda Khan on the neighbourhood mosques of Pakistan, I study the aspirations and scepticisms pious Shia share with spaces like al-Qaim. The ethnographic vignettes share life trajectories of peoples who aspire, are sceptical, and share an open-ended relationship with Hizbollah through spaces like al-Qaim. |
dc.format.extent |
1 online resource (vii, 91 leaves) |
dc.language.iso |
eng |
dc.subject.classification |
T:006997 |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Beirut Suburban Area (Lebanon) |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Shi'ah -- Lebanon -- Beirut Suburban Area -- Case studies. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Hizballah (Lebanon) |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Mosques -- Lebanon -- Beirut Suburban Area -- Case studies. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Neighborhoods -- Lebanon -- Beirut Suburban Area. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Anthropology -- Lebanon -- |
dc.title |
Living with institutionalised Islam : a case study of Southern suburbs of Beirut. |
dc.title.alternative |
A case study of Southern Suburbs of Beirut |
dc.type |
Thesis |
dc.contributor.department |
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies |
dc.contributor.faculty |
Faculty of Arts and Sciences |
dc.contributor.institution |
American University of Beirut |