Lightning through the Clouds : : ?Izz al-Din al-Qassam and the Making of the Modern Middle East /

Lightning through the Clouds : : ?Izz al-Din al-Qassam and the Making of the Modern Middle East / / Mark Sanagan.

Lightning through the Clouds is the first English-language life-and-times biography of ‘Izz al-Din al-Qassam, a preeminent figure who helped to reshape the political and religious landscape of the region. A Syrian-born, Egyptian-educated cleric, he went from the battlefields of World War I to join t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Sanagan, Mark,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2020
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • A Note on Transliterations
  • Maps
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Guide
  • 2 The City of a Thousand Minarets
  • 3 The Soldier Shaykh
  • 4 Exile to Haifa
  • 5 Workers and Villagers
  • 6 The Tip of the Thread
  • 7 Nahalal, 1932
  • 8 With the Qurʾan as a Passport
  • 9 Memorial
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix. Provisional List of Qassamites
  • A Note on Sources
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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