Controlling the State in the Political Theory of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Existing scholarship has largely focused on the violence of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) when analyzing their response to the Oslo Agreement and the establishment of the Palestinian National Authority (PA) in the 1990s. The Islamist opposition’s contribution to Palestinian political tho...

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Autor principal:	Erik Skare
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Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	Hamas Palestinian Islamic Jihad political theory Islamism Jamal Mansur Fathi al-Shiqaqi Religions. Mythology. Rationalism BL1-2790
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:6db1459fae3a46beb41f92f770ef05e82021-11-25T18:53:22ZControlling the State in the Political Theory of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad10.3390/rel121110102077-1444https://doaj.org/article/6db1459fae3a46beb41f92f770ef05e82021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/11/1010https://doaj.org/toc/2077-1444Existing scholarship has largely focused on the violence of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) when analyzing their response to the Oslo Agreement and the establishment of the Palestinian National Authority (PA) in the 1990s. The Islamist opposition’s contribution to Palestinian political thought has largely been ignored, however, although the prospects of Palestinian self-rule confronted the two movements with fundamental questions about social organization, governance, and the permissibility of democracy. I offer an analysis of key Hamas and PIJ texts from this period to demonstrate that Hamas and PIJ fundamentally differ in their analysis of the state and the organization of just society. While Hamas outlines a state-centric approach to governance through which Islamic values are enforced from above, PIJ perceives the state to be the greatest threat to the just organization of society. This article consequently dispels the myth that the two Palestinian Islamist movements had no significant ideological differences in the 1990s.Erik SkareMDPI AGarticleHamasPalestinian Islamic Jihadpolitical theoryIslamismJamal MansurFathi al-ShiqaqiReligions. Mythology. RationalismBL1-2790ENReligions, Vol 12, Iss 1010, p 1010 (2021)
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description	Existing scholarship has largely focused on the violence of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) when analyzing their response to the Oslo Agreement and the establishment of the Palestinian National Authority (PA) in the 1990s. The Islamist opposition’s contribution to Palestinian political thought has largely been ignored, however, although the prospects of Palestinian self-rule confronted the two movements with fundamental questions about social organization, governance, and the permissibility of democracy. I offer an analysis of key Hamas and PIJ texts from this period to demonstrate that Hamas and PIJ fundamentally differ in their analysis of the state and the organization of just society. While Hamas outlines a state-centric approach to governance through which Islamic values are enforced from above, PIJ perceives the state to be the greatest threat to the just organization of society. This article consequently dispels the myth that the two Palestinian Islamist movements had no significant ideological differences in the 1990s.
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Controlling the State in the Political Theory of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad

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