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Islam and Salvation in Palestine: The Islamic Jihad Movement (Dayan Center Papers, 127)

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"Islam and Salvation in Palestine" by Meir Hatina (2001), paperback. Back cover: "The Islamic Jihad, established in the Gaza Strip in 1981, became known to the ... international public as a result of a series of violent acts against Israeli targets during the mid-1980s. Although smaller than Hamas ... the Islamic Jihad played a key role in turning faith into a theology of liberation dedicated to uprooting .. the Israeli occupation" [of Palestine]. What is very informative about this book is its VERY DETAILED analysis of the origins and the ideology of the "Islamic Jihad" movement, its leaders, and its disputes with other Palestinian Rights groups; not the broad, wordy analysis found in most newspaper columns. While dated for understanding today (2011) issues - this book is still relevant in understanding this movement's development.A short work written by a lecturer in the Middle Eastern and African History Dept. at Tel Aviv University. The main emphasis of exposition here pertains to the `Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement'. It is dedicated towards replacing the Zionist state of Israel with a Muslim-dominated state encompassing the entire historical Palestine region. As Dan Pipes opined in a Sept. 2001 MEQ review: its "ideological distinction is to portray Palestine as the key to the Muslim world and therefore contend that anti-Zionism is the key to Islam's success." Steve Tamari [Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville] wrote a very extensive review of this book at [...] in April 2003, and commented that the author "makes a compelling story."