TY - BOOK AU - Biçer-Deveci,Elife AU - Biçer-Deveci,Elife AU - Bourmaud,Philippe TI - Alcohol in the Maghreb and the Middle East since the nineteenth century : disputes, policies and practices T2 - St Antony's series SN - 978-3-030-84000-6 U1 - 663.2096109034 223E PY - 2021/// CY - Cham PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - ALCOOLISME KW - MUSULMAN KW - VIN KW - COMMERCIALISATION KW - CONSOMMATION KW - MAGHREB KW - MOYEN ORIENT N1 - 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); Bibliogr. en fin de chaque chapitre N2 - 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 ER -