Declared A Terrorist Menace Yet Elected To Government In A Free Election, Hamas Now Stands As The Most Important Sunni Islamist Group In The Middle East. How Did Hamas Grow To Be So Powerful? Who Supports It? What Is Its Future? This Essential Insight Into Hamas Answers These Questions. Milton-edwards And Farrell Have Between Them Spent Decades Researching And Reporting From The Heartlands Of The Hamas Movement And Gained Unrivalled Access To The World Of Islamic Resistance And Radical Islam In Its Potent Palestinian Form. Drawing On Their Frontline Experiences Of Recent Events, Their Access To Secret Documents From The Western Intelligence Community And Interviews With Leaders, Militants, And Commanders Of Hamas' Armed Battalions, They Reveal The Full Story Of Hamas And The Future Of Political Islam In The Middle East. Milton-edwards And Farrell Show Hamas To Be A Broad And Thus More Powerful Regional Phenomenon Than Previously Thought, And By Doing So Contend That It Is Now Time To Rethink The War And The Nature Of Islam And Its Role In The Middle East. -- Publisher Description. We Deal With Allah Directly --- In The Path Of Al-qassam --- Sowing --- The First Intifada --- Oslo And 'vain Endeavours' --- The Second Intifada --- The Qassam Brigades --- The Martyr Syndrome --- Harvesting --- Women --- A House Divided --- Bullet And Ballot --- Hamastan --- Inferno. Beverley Milton-edwards And Stephen Farrell. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
Categories:
- Religion & Spirituality
- Religious Studies
- Religious Groups
- Islamic
- Religious Groups
- Religious Studies
Publisher : Polity
Author : Milton-Edwards, Beverley,Farrell, Stephen
Language : English
Edition : 1
Published :2010-04-26
Number Of Pages : 340
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0745642969
ISBN-13 : 9780745642963
Item weight : 1.19 lb
Dimensions : 1.18 in x 6.06 in x 8.9 in
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