ISBN:
9780691124483
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9781400838325
Language:
English
Pages:
XVIII, 319 S.
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Kt.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Online-Ressource Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Princeton studies in Muslim politics
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Roy, Sara Hamas and civil society in Gaza
Parallel Title:
Print version Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza : Engaging the Islamist Social Sector
DDC:
324.25695308209531
Keywords:
Arab-Israeli conflict
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Palästinensische Selbstverwaltungsgebiete Israelisch besetzte Gebiete
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Gaza-Streifen
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Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya
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Zivilgesellschaft
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Gesellschaftliche/politische Bewegung
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Widerstandsbewegung
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Politischer Islam
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Militanter Islam
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Religiöser Fundamentalismus
;
Freiwilligenorganisation
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Hilfsorganisation
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Netzwerk (institutionell/sozial)
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Aus US-amerikanischer Sicht
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Arab countries History 20th century
;
Gazastreifen
;
Ḥarakat al-Muqāwama al-Islāmīya Ḥamās
;
Sozialpolitik
Abstract:
Many in the United States and Israel believe that Hamas is nothing but a terrorist organization, and that its social sector serves merely to recruit new supporters for its violent agenda. Based on Sara Roy's extensive fieldwork in the Gaza Strip and West Bank during the critical period of the Oslo peace process, Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza shows how the social service activities sponsored by the Islamist group emphasized not political violence but rather community development and civic restoration. Roy demonstrates how Islamic social institutions in Gaza and the West Bank advocated a mod
Description / Table of Contents:
Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; A Note on Language and Transliteration; Prologue; Chapter 1 Introduction: Structure, Arguments, and Conceptual Framework; Chapter 2 A Brief History of Hamas and the Islamic Movement in Palestine; Chapter 3 Islamist Conceptions of Civil Society; Chapter 4 The Evolution of Islamist Social Institutions in the Gaza Strip: Before and during Oslo (a Sociopolitical History); Chapter 5 Islamist Social Institutions: Creating a Descriptive Context
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 6 Islamist Social Institutions: Key Analytical FindingsChapter 7 A Changing Islamist Order? From Civic Empowerment to Civic Regression-the Second Intifada and Beyond; Postscript The Devastation of Gaza-Some Additional Reflections on Where We Are Now; Appendix Islamist (and Non-Islamist) Social Institutions; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-307) and index. - Description based on print version record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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