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- Publication Name
- Harvard University Press
- ISBN
- 9780674025295
- Book Title
- Everyday Jihad : the Rise of Militant Islam Among Palestinians in Lebanon
- Original Language
- French
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Author
- Bernard Rougier
- Genre
- Religion, Social Science, History
- Topic
- Islamic Studies, Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Religion, Politics & State, Middle East / General
- Item Weight
- 19.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.9 in
- Number of Pages
- 298 Pages
- Country of Origin
- United States
Everyday Jihad : The Rise of Militant Islam among Palestinians in
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674025296
ISBN-13
9780674025295
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57036628
Product Key Features
Original Language
French
Book Title
Everyday Jihad : the Rise of Militant Islam Among Palestinians in Lebanon
Number of Pages
298 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Islamic Studies, Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Religion, Politics & State, Middle East / General
Genre
Religion, Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
19.4 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-102855
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
[A] thorough and disturbing account of the spread of Salafist jihadism among Lebanon’s persecuted Palestinians., Palestinian refugees comprise about 12 percent of Lebanon’s population. Considered foreigners by law (only a handful have obtained Lebanese citizenship since 1948), they are subject to a number of onerous restrictions, and somewhat more than 60 percent live in 12 United Nations Relief and Works Agency camps that have become semisovereign small towns. Everyday Jihad builds on an in-depth case study of everyday politics in one such camp, Ain al-Helweh, to explain the larger role of the Palestinians in Lebanon. It is a complex and depressing story. The organizing theme, as the subtitle suggests, is that the Palestine Liberation Organization, once the preeminent force among Palestinians in Lebanon, is losing out to jihadists as nationalist ideology gives way to Islamism., Everyday Jihad looks at a fascinating, under-investigated microcosm of the Islamist landscape…Highly recommended… Everyday Jihad is admirable for the density of its sociological detail and, not least, for the thoroughness of Mr. Rougier’s method… Everyday Jihad …implies something banal, routine. Mr. Rougier’s merit is to have shown the contrary and to have braved forbidding subcultures to do so., The portrait that Rougier paints is dark and threatening and his work is another in a recent series of alarm bells ringing about the Middle East. We now stand six years into the Neoconservative Middle East project and the world it is creating is a pit of writhing snakes. Rougier offers one of the best and most realistic accounts yet., A chilling story…Rougier compellingly exposes the ways in which Palestinians were diverted from their territorial struggle and recruited to global jihad. This is a disturbing insight into the constantly evolving religious violence in the Middle East., [Rougier] shows how a growing number of disaffected Palestinian refugees now view themselves as part of the global geography of radical Islam, pointing out that this is a position that has led them to identify with the rhetoric of al Qaeda., Everyday Jihad looks at a fascinating, under-investigated microcosm of the Islamist landscape…Highly recommended…Everyday Jihad is admirable for the density of its sociological detail and, not least, for the thoroughness of Mr. Rougier’s method…Everyday Jihad…implies something banal, routine. Mr. Rougier’s merit is to have shown the contrary and to have braved forbidding subcultures to do so., Everyday Jihad glimmers with a vividness born of long periods of meticulous and discerning fieldwork. Rougier provides an intimate religious geography of the camps, including topics and explications of sermons, close observation of Ph.D. dissertations and their defenses, and extended interviews with those involved in the propagation of radical Islamist ideology inside the camps. Occasionally putting himself at considerable personal risk, Rougier gained an understanding of the context and inner workings of Islamic radicalism that few Westerners ever have.
Dewey Decimal
320.5/57089927405692
Table Of Content
Guide to Islamist Groups in Lebanon IntroductionPart I: The Salafist Dynamic 1. From Iranian Influence to Sunni Affirmation 2. Islamism from Peshawar to Ain al-Helweh 3. The Struggle against al-AhbashPart II: Civil War Ideology 4. The Struggle to Control the Camp 5. Preaching Topics 6. The Role of Islamic Institutes in Lebanon 7. Underground Jihad in Sir al-DiniyehConclusion Notes Acknowledgments Index
Synopsis
As southern Lebanon becomes a battleground for Islamist warriors, ‘Everyday Jihad’ plunges us into the sprawling, heavily populated Palestinian refugee camp at Ain al-Helweh, which in the early 1990s became a site for militant Sunni Islamists.
LC Classification Number
BP173.5.R6813 2007
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