Palestinian Islamic jihad : Islamist writings on resistance and religion / Erik Skare.
"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 t...
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| Language: | English Arabic |
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London [England] :
I.B. Tauris,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | SOAS Palestine studies.
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Table of Contents:
- 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 Shites. 10. Excerpts from Khomeini: the Islamic solution and alternative ; 11. The Sunni and the Shite: 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 securalism ; 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 te Jihadist march of Palestinian Islamic jihad ; 20. Anwar Abu Aha on the Arab Spring and PIJ's position.