Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Islamist Writings on Resistance and Religion

Erik Skare (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2023
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-0-7556-3596-2 (ISBN)

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Founded in 1981, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is one of the most important yet least understood Palestinian armed factions, both in terms of its history and ideology. Yet no in-depth translation of its ideological corpus exists. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive account of the ideology of PIJ in the movement’s own words. Based on the author’s extensive fieldwork and archival research in the occupied Palestinian territories and Lebanon, the book comprises the PIJ’s written texts produced since 1979, translated here into English for the first time.

In addition to the primary texts, the book includes expert commentary from the author for each source to help explain the context and the broader significance of the documents. The key contention of the book is that although PIJ employs Islamic signifiers and symbolism, its ideology is strikingly similar to the anti-colonialism of the PLO in the 1960s, and in stark contrast to Hamas. A comprehensive resource on the PIJ, it covers:

· PIJ beliefs about the Palestinian problem
· what type of Islamism the PIJ espouses
· how the PIJ regards Shiites and Iran
· how it can be understood as an Islamist organization
· what it envisions for Palestinian society in the future

This is the only sourcebook available on the PIJ.

Erik Skare is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for International Studies, Sciences Po, Paris, France. He is the author of Digital Jihad: Palestinian Resistance in the Digital Era (Zed Books, 2016) and he specializes in the study of violent and non-violent Palestinian resistance. Skare has conducted extensive fieldwork in Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian territories since 2014.

INTRODUCTION

PART I: FACTS AND STANCES
1. WHAT IS PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD?
2. EXCERPTS FROM FACTS AND STANCES
3. POLITICAL DOCUMENT OF PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD
4. ISLAMIC PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS

PART II: PIJ, COLONIALISM, AND THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE
5. WHY HISTORY?
6. THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE IS THE CENTRAL CAUSE OF THE ISLAMIC MOVEMENT… WHY?
7. EXCERPTS FROM “AFGHANISTAN: THE ROOTS OF THE CONFLICT … THE REVOLUTION … THE FUTURE … IS IT A NEW RESURGENCE OF THE CRUSADERS?”
8. THE CENTRALITY OF PALESTINE AND THE CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIC PROJECT
9. PALESTINE IS ON COLLISION COURSE WITH THE WESTERN COLONIAL PROJECT

PART III: IRAN AND THE SHIITES
10. EXCERPTS FROM KHOMEINI: THE ISLAMIC SOLUTION AND ALTERNATIVE
11. THE SUNNI AND THE SHIITE: A FABRICATED AND REGRETTABLE PANDEMONIUM
12. EXCERPTS FROM FACTS AND STANCES

PART IV: STATE, VIOLENCE, AND CIVIL SOCIETY
13. RESTRUCTURING THE PLO: THE VIEW OF PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD
14. PRINCIPAL NOTES ON THE ISSUE OF A PALESTINIAN STATE
15. FUNDAMENTALISM AND SECULARISM
16. EXCERPTS FROM “THE ISLAMIC MOVEMENTS AND THE DEVELOPMENTS OF THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE”
17. CREEDAL AND INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS FOR THE “CULTURE OF RESISTANCE”
18. THE PHILOSOPHY OF MARTYRDOM
19. EXCERPT FROM THE JIHADIST MARCH OF PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD
20. ANWAR ABU AHA ON THE ARAB SPRING AND PIJ’S POSITION

Erscheinungsdatum	11.01.2023
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-7556-3596-5 / 0755635965
ISBN-13	978-0-7556-3596-2 / 9780755635962
Zustand	Neuware