An Enchanted Modern is an ethnographic research conducted by Lara Deed in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Deeb demonstrates that Islam and modernity are not in opposition but complementary. It examines the ways in which individual and collective expressions along with understandings of piety have been debated, contested, and reformulated. By highlighting the way modernity and piety are experienced, debated and shared by "everyday Islamists", this book shows that Islamism is not static or monolithic. In the introductory part of this book Deeb observes that asking questions about whether or not people are modern is nonproductive. Instead Deebs (2006:16) states that: I will focus on how people understand the terms of the debate, on how they approach the question of the modern, on what they want for themselves and for their community, without assuming the universality of desires or that progress has meaning. a single trajectory. This is a strength of Deeb's book because the reader can try to understand the different discourses and assessments of modernity that Islamists debate in various ways. It's also useful...