TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roy,Sara
TI  - Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector 
T2  - Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
SN  - 9780691159676
AV  - HV6433.P25 R69 2017
U1  - 324.25694208209531 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Arab-Israeli conflict
KW  - Islamic fundamentalism
KW  - Gaza Strip
KW  - HISTORY / Middle East / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Christians
KW  - Fatah
KW  - Gaza City
KW  - Gaza strip
KW  - Gaza
KW  - Hamas
KW  - Intifada
KW  - Islam
KW  - Islamic Resistance Movement
KW  - Islamic authenticity
KW  - Islamic civil society
KW  - Islamic movement
KW  - Islamist mobilization
KW  - Islamist movement
KW  - Islamist social institutions
KW  - Islamist social sector
KW  - Islamists
KW  - Israel
KW  - Jews
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Muslim Brotherhood
KW  - Muslim community
KW  - Oslo peace process
KW  - Oslo period
KW  - Oslo process
KW  - Palestine
KW  - Palestinian people
KW  - Palestinian uprising
KW  - Palestinians
KW  - Second Intifada
KW  - civic engagement
KW  - civic restoration
KW  - civism
KW  - community development
KW  - cultural identity
KW  - grassroots development
KW  - humanitarian supplies
KW  - individual organizations
KW  - non-Israeli
KW  - political force
KW  - political leadership
KW  - political mobilization
KW  - politics
KW  - public sphere
KW  - religion
KW  - second Intifada
KW  - secular civil society
KW  - social institutions
KW  - social sector work
KW  - social system
KW  - terrorist organization
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; A Note on Language and Transliteration --; Prologue --; Chapter 1. Introduction: Structure, Arguments, and Conceptual Framework --; Chapter 2. A Brief History of Hamas and the Islamic Movement in Palestine --; Chapter 3. Islamist Conceptions of Civil Society --; Chapter 4. The Evolution of Islamist Social Institutions in the Gaza Strip --; Chapter 5. Islamist Social Institutions: Creating a Descriptive Context --; Chapter 6. Islamist Social Institutions: Key Analytical Findings --; Chapter 7. A Changing Islamist Order? From Civic Empowerment to Civic Regression-the Second Intifada and Beyond --; Postscript. The Devastation of Gaza-Some Additional Reflections on Where We Are Now --; Appendix. Islamist (and Non-Islamist) Social Institutions --; Afterword to the Paperback Edition --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Selected Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Many in the United States and Israel believe that Hamas is nothing but a terrorist organization, and that its social sector serves merely to recruit new supporters for its violent agenda. Based on Sara Roy's extensive fieldwork in the Gaza Strip and West Bank during the critical period of the Oslo peace process, Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza shows how the social service activities sponsored by the Islamist group emphasized not political violence but rather community development and civic restoration. Roy demonstrates how Islamic social institutions in Gaza and the West Bank advocated a moderate approach to change that valued order and stability, not disorder and instability; were less dogmatically Islamic than is often assumed; and served people who had a range of political outlooks and no history of acting collectively in support of radical Islam. These institutions attempted to create civic communities, not religious congregations. They reflected a deep commitment to stimulate a social, cultural, and moral renewal of the Muslim community, one couched not only--or even primarily--in religious terms. Vividly illustrating Hamas's unrecognized potential for moderation, accommodation, and change, Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza also traces critical developments in Hamas's social and political sectors through the Second Intifada to today, and offers an assessment of the current, more adverse situation in the occupied territories. The Oslo period held great promise that has since been squandered. This book argues for more enlightened policies by the United States and Israel, ones that reflect Hamas's proven record of nonviolent community building. In a new afterword, Roy discusses how Hamas has been affected by changing regional dynamics and by recent economic and political events in Gaza, including failed attempts at reconciliation with Fatah
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400848942?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400848942
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