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Mobilizing the faithful : militant Islamist groups and their constituencies / Stefan Malthaner.
LIBRA BP166.14.F85 M35 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Malthaner, Stefan.
- Series:
- Micropolitics of violence ; v. 4.
- Mikropolitik der Gewalt = Micropolitics of violence ; v. 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islamic fundamentalism--Egypt--Case studies.
- Islamic fundamentalism.
- Islamic fundamentalism--Lebanon--Case studies.
- Religious militants--Egypt--Case studies.
- Religious militants.
- Religious militants--Lebanon--Case studies.
- Terrorism--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Terrorism.
- Islam and politics.
- Lebanon.
- Egypt.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 273 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Frankfurt ; New York : Campus Verlag, [2011]
- Summary:
- One of the keys to dealing with militant Islamic groups is understanding how they work with, relate to, and motivate their constituencies. Mobilizing the Faithful offers a pair of detailed case studies-of the Egyptian groups al-Jamaa al-lslamiyya and al-Jihad and Lebanon's Hizbullah-to identify typical forms of support relationships, development patterns, and dynamics of both radicalization and restraint. The insights it offers into the crucial relationship between militants and the communities from which they arise are widely applicable to violent insurgencies not only in the Middle East but around the world. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Violent insurgencies and relationships of support: Outlines of an analytical framework; 3. Between Islamic revolution and resistance: The militant groups' aims and perspectives; 4. The setting: Militant Islamist groups and their social environment; 5. Support relationships I: Al-Jamaa al-Islamiyya
- Spreading the Call and ruling the neighborhood; 6. Development patterns I: Al-Jamaa al-Islamiyya
- Escalation, estrangement, and radicalization; 7. Support Relationships II: Outcast, defender, provider
- Hizbullah and the Shiite community in Lebanon.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-273).
- ISBN:
- 359339412X
- 9783593394121
- OCLC:
- 711050687
- Publisher Number:
- 99945576592
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