Muslim Palestine: The Ideology of Hamas »

The ideology of Islamic fundamentalists is of central importance in the modern world, but it is often distorted or misunderstood by the international media. This detailed study provides an insightful analysis of the Palestinian Hamas movement's world-view, and shows how the theoretical framework developed by thinkers like Hassan al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb and al-Mawdudi is applied to a specific political, social and economic context. Nusse explains the fundamentalist position on recent events, such as the Gulf War, the Madrid peace negotiations and the Hebron massacre, and helps to dissipate myths surrounding modern fundamentalist movements and their overwhelming success as opposition forces in the Islamic world.
Using first-hand source material exclusively in Arabic which has never before been systematically explored - particularly the magazine Filastin al-Muslima - a rare case- study of fundamentalist thought is compiled. Combining socioeconomic analysis with the history of ideas, the author

S. Ayubi

Lucidly written, this book makes a valuable contribution to college and university collections in Arab-Israeli and Islamic studies.