Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza : : Engaging the Islamist Social Sector / / Sara Roy.

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 O...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2014
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:With a New afterword by the author
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics ; 50
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 2 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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
  • Chapter 5. Islamist Social Institutions: Creating a Descriptive Context
  • Chapter 6. Islamist Social Institutions: Key Analytical Findings
  • Chapter 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
  • Afterword to the Paperback Edition
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index