RT Book
T1 Jihad in the city: militant Islam and contentious politics in Tripoli
A1 Lefèvre, Raphaël
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1760997315
AB Tawhid was a militant Islamist group which implemented Islamic law at gunpoint in the Lebanese city of Tripoli during the 1980s. In retrospect, some have called it 'the first ISIS-style Emirate'. Drawing on two hundred interviews with Islamist fighters and their mortal enemies, as well as on a trove of new archival material, Raphaël Lefèvre provides a comprehensive account of this Islamist group. He shows how they featured religious ideologues determined to turn Lebanon into an Islamic Republic, yet also included Tripolitan rebels of all stripes, neighbourhood strongmen with scores to settle, local subalterns seeking social revenge as well as profit-driven gangsters, who each tried to steer Tawhid's exercise of violence to their advantage. Providing a detailed understanding of the multi-faceted processes through which Tawhid emerged in 1982, implemented its 'Emirate' and suddenly collapsed in 1985, this is a story that shows how militant Islamist groups are impacted by their grand ideology as much as by local contexts - with crucial lessons for understanding social movements, rebel groups and terrorist organizations elsewhere too.
OP 482
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 May 2021)
CN 956.05
SN 9781108564816
SN 9781108426268
SN 9781108444989
K1 Ḥarakat al-Tawḥīd al-Islāmī (Lebanon)
K1 Religious militants : History : 20th century : Lebanon
K1 Islamic fundamentalism : History : 20th century : Lebanon
K1 Islam and politics : History : 20th century : Lebanon
K1 Islam and state : History : 20th century : Lebanon
K1 Miliz
K1 Dschihadismus
K1 Militanz
K1 Islam
K1 Djihad
K1 Ideologie
K1 Religion
K1 Lokalisation
K1 Stadt
K1 HISTORY / Middle East / General
K1 Libanon
K1 eBook-Cambridge-Gesamt-EBA-2024
DO 10.1017/9781108564816