Ashes of Hama : the muslim brotherhood in Syria / Raphaël Lefèvre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lefèvre, Raphaël, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jamʻīyat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn (Syria)--History.

Jamʻīyat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn (Syria).

History.

Syria--History--20th century.

Syria.

Syria--History--21st century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] ; New York, [New York] : Oxford University Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part I Politicizing Islam (1860-1963)

1 The Emergence of a Politicized Islam in Syria (1860-1944) 3

The "Damascus school": the Salafiyya movement in Syria 4

Politicizing Islam: the rise of the "Islamic populists" 11

2 Islam and Democracy: The Muslim Brotherhood in Post-independence Syria (1946-1963) 19

Egyptian roots 20

The Syrian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood 23

Competing for power in Syria's parliamentary democracy 27

Defending Islam with pragmatism 30

"Islamic socialism: a Muslim drink in a Marxist cup" 33

Losing ground to the Ba'ath Party 37

Part II The Islamic Opposition to Ba'athism (1963-1982)

3 The Islamic Reaction to the Ba'athist Revolution 43

A clash of ideologies 44

A clash of constituencies 49

The ideological failure of Ba'athism 54

Urban uprisings 56

4 "A Minority Cannot Forever Rule a Majority" 63

Sunnis and Alawis: a history of mistrust 64

The "revenge of a minority"? 67

The "Alawization" of the Syrian regime: myth or reality? 70

Atmosphere of sectarian civil war 74

Part III The Rise of Jihadism in Late 1970s Syria (1963-1982)

5 The Radicalization of the Islamic Movement (1963-1980) 81

The moderation of the Damascus Ikhwan 82

The split in the "Damascus wing" 88

The radicalization of the Islamic movement 96

Birth of an extremist organization: the Fighting Vanguard 101

6 Endorsing Jihad Against The Ba'ath (1980-1982) 109

State repression 110

The Muslim Brotherhood's jihad 115

A last stand: the Hama uprising 122

A "Camp David conspiracy"? 129

Part IV Ashes of Hama: The Syrian Islamist Movement Since 1982

7 Militant Islam After Hama 137

Al-Qaeda: the Syrian connection 138

The Syrian mukhabarat and radical Islam: a blowback? 147

Taming political Islam 154

8 Struggling for Relevance: The Muslim Brotherhood s Exile 161

Divided between the "Hama clan" and the "Aleppo faction" 162

Back to basics: the ideological evolution 170

Engaging with the Syrian opposition 174

9 Uprisings in Syria: Revenge on History 181

Fostering Islamic radicalization 182

The Brotherhood's rebirth from ashes 187

Back to Syria: opportunities and challenges 194.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Other Format:

Print version: Lefèvre, Raphaël. Ashes of Hama : the muslim brotherhood in Syria.

ISBN:

9780199365456

OCLC:

858762972

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