Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey (eBook)

Islamism, Violence and the State

Mehmet Kurt (Autor)

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2017
208 Seiten
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-1-78680-037-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This study analyses Kurdish Hizbullah as a social movement, charting Hizbullah's development from its origins in violent militancy to its move towards a more ambiguous 'civic' mode of engagement.Mehmet Kurt explores Hizbullah in Turkey's many paradoxes: notably its political rise and the apparent power of Islamism in a region in which leftist Kurdish political movements dominate political discourse; and its composition, which in its Sunni and Kurdish makeup, differs from the Shiite Hizbullah in Lebanon. Through his unique position as an anthropologist, theorist and former Imam, Kurt produces a work of extraordinary insight: an ethnography comprised of extensive interviews with leaders, members and supporters of Hizbullah, revealing the manner in which Islamic civil society has taken root in a region where ethnic identity has been the primary organising tool against a repressive and violent state.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.3.2017
• Reihe/Serie: State Crime
• Reihe/Serie: State Crime
• Übersetzer: Argun Cakir
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: belonging • ethnography • Hizbullah • Identity • Islam • Islamism • Kurds • Religious discourse • Social Movement • Sunni • Syria • theocratic • Torture • Turkey • Turkish State
• ISBN-10: 1-78680-037-3 / 1786800373
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78680-037-4 / 9781786800374