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.

Introduction:

Elife Biçer-Deveci, Philippe Bourmaud

Part 1: Science and Politics

Chapter 1 : Turkey's Prohibition in 1920: Modernising an Islamic Law.

Elife Biçer-Deveci,

Chapter 2 : Unknowable Social Problems or Competing Régimes of Truth ?

Philippe Bourmaud

Chapter 3 : Ordinary Drinking ? Place and Politics of Alcohol in Lebanon.

Marie Bonte

Part 2: Normative systems and negotiated interests

Chapter 4: Alcohol and Religious Practices in Meknes (Morocco): Between Rejection and Compromise.

Philippe Chaudat

Chapter 5:Morocco, the most prohibitive of the French colonies (1912-1956)?

Nessim Znaien

Chapter 6: Drinking in Turkey: From a Social Coexistence to an Ideological Confrontation.

Sylvie Gangloff

Part 3 : Contested spaces

Chapter 7 : Drinking in Times of Change: The Hanunting Presence of Alcohol in Egypt.

Mina Ibrahim

Chapter 8: Production and Consumption of Alcohol in Ramallah: Steadfastness, Religion and Urban Rhytms

Mariangella Gasparotto

Part 4:

Chapter 9: Epilogue.

Rudy Matthee