Lightning through the Clouds : ?Izz al-Din al-Qassam and the Making of the Modern Middle East /
Sanagan, Mark
Lightning through the Clouds : ?Izz al-Din al-Qassam and the Making of the Modern Middle East / Mark Sanagan. - 1 online resource (272 p.)
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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 the anticolonialist fight against the French in Syria. Sentenced to be executed by the French military, he managed to escape to Palestine, where he became an increasingly popular presence, moved by the plight of the poor and disenfranchised. Outraged by British rule and the encroachment of Zionism, he formed a secret society to resist the colonization of Palestine first by the British and then by Jewish immigrants from Europe, once again taking up arms and advocating for a moral, political, and military jihad as the only solution. His death at the hands of Palestine Police in 1935 drew thousands to his funeral and sparked the 1936–1939 Arab Revolt. His influence continues to be felt in the region; for example, the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas organization is named the ‘Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Al-Qassam is either revered or reviled, depending on the observers’ perspective, but he is without doubt a fascinating and historically significant individual whose influence on the past, and our present, makes this examination of his life both important and timely.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781477320570
10.7560/320563 doi
2019034301
Jewish-Arab relations--History--1917-1948--Biography.
Palestinian Arabs--Biography.
Revolutionaries--Palestine--Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
Izz al-Din al-Qassam, Ottoman history, Syrian history, Black Hand.
DS125.3.Q36 / S26 2020 DS125.3.Q36 / S26 2020
956.9404092
Lightning through the Clouds : ?Izz al-Din al-Qassam and the Making of the Modern Middle East / Mark Sanagan. - 1 online resource (272 p.)
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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 the anticolonialist fight against the French in Syria. Sentenced to be executed by the French military, he managed to escape to Palestine, where he became an increasingly popular presence, moved by the plight of the poor and disenfranchised. Outraged by British rule and the encroachment of Zionism, he formed a secret society to resist the colonization of Palestine first by the British and then by Jewish immigrants from Europe, once again taking up arms and advocating for a moral, political, and military jihad as the only solution. His death at the hands of Palestine Police in 1935 drew thousands to his funeral and sparked the 1936–1939 Arab Revolt. His influence continues to be felt in the region; for example, the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas organization is named the ‘Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Al-Qassam is either revered or reviled, depending on the observers’ perspective, but he is without doubt a fascinating and historically significant individual whose influence on the past, and our present, makes this examination of his life both important and timely.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781477320570
10.7560/320563 doi
2019034301
Jewish-Arab relations--History--1917-1948--Biography.
Palestinian Arabs--Biography.
Revolutionaries--Palestine--Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
Izz al-Din al-Qassam, Ottoman history, Syrian history, Black Hand.
DS125.3.Q36 / S26 2020 DS125.3.Q36 / S26 2020
956.9404092