Sunni City: Tripoli from Islamist utopia to the Lebanese 'revolution'

Tripoli, Lebanon's 'Sunni City' is often presented as an Islamist or even Jihadi city. However, this misleading label conceals a much deeper history of resistance and collaboration with the state and the wider region. Based on more than a decade of fieldwork and using a broad array of...

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主要作者: Gade, Tine 1982- (Author)
格式: 電子 圖書
語言:English
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出版: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2022
In:Year: 2022
叢編:Cambridge Middle East studies
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Tripoli (Lebanon)
Further subjects:B Tripoli (Lebanon) Politics and government
B Islam and politics (Lebanon) (Tripoli)
B Sunnites (Lebanon) (Tripoli)
B Political Violence (Lebanon) (Tripoli)
在線閱讀: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
Erscheint auch als: 9781009222761
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總結:Tripoli, Lebanon's 'Sunni City' is often presented as an Islamist or even Jihadi city. However, this misleading label conceals a much deeper history of resistance and collaboration with the state and the wider region. Based on more than a decade of fieldwork and using a broad array of primary sources, Tine Gade analyses the modern history of Tripoli, exploring the city's contentious politics, its fluid political identity, and the relations between Islamist and sectarian groups. Offering an alternative explanation for Tripoli's decades of political troubles - rather than emphasizing Islamic radicalism as the principal explanation - she argues that it is Lebanese clientelism and the decay of the state that produced the rise of violent Islamist movements in Tripoli. By providing a corrective to previous assumptions, this book not only expands our understanding of Lebanese politics, but of the wider religious and political dynamics in the Middle East.
ISBN:1009222805
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/9781009222808