Book contents
- Jihad in the City
- Jihad in the City
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary of Concepts
- Note on Transliteration
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1 Tales of a Rebel City
- 2 Neighborhood Islamism
- 3 The Emergence of Tawhid
- 4 A Vernacular Islamist Ideology
- 5 Social Jihad
- 6 The Illusion of Religious Violence
- 7 The Geopolitics of Islamism
- 8 The Downfall of Tawhid
- Conclusion
- Bibliography of Essential Sources
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2021
- Jihad in the City
- Jihad in the City
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary of Concepts
- Note on Transliteration
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1 Tales of a Rebel City
- 2 Neighborhood Islamism
- 3 The Emergence of Tawhid
- 4 A Vernacular Islamist Ideology
- 5 Social Jihad
- 6 The Illusion of Religious Violence
- 7 The Geopolitics of Islamism
- 8 The Downfall of Tawhid
- Conclusion
- Bibliography of Essential Sources
- Index
Summary
The introduction presents the puzzles which the book seeks to answer, introduces the literatures in political science and sociology which it strives to speaks to and contribute to, introduces the theoretical lenses it uses to unpack the cogs and wheels of the mechanisms at play in the Tawhid Islamist movement in Tripoli and discusses the methods on which research for this book has relied.
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- Jihad in the CityMilitant Islam and Contentious Politics in Tripoli, pp. 1 - 37Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021