Tine Gade

Sunni City

Tripoli from Islamist Utopia to the Lebanese 'Revolution'

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the contentious politics of Tripoli, Tine Gade examines the city's modern history, considering its fluid political identity and the relations between the governing Islamist and sectarian groups. In so doing, Gade offers a broader analysis of the character of Lebanese politics, and religious and political dynamics in the Middle East.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Middle East Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 616g
• ISBN-13: 9781009222761
• ISBN-10: 1009222767
• Artikelnr.: 63594677

Autorenporträt

Tine Gade is Senior Research Fellow in the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs' (NUPI) Research Group on Peace, Conflict and Development. She is a former Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute and the 2012 recipient of the Michel Seurat prize. She has conducted fieldwork on Sunni movements in Lebanon since 2008 and in Iraq since 2016. This is her first book, and it builds on her extensive research during her doctoral studies at Sciences Po Paris.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Tripoli, secondary city of Lebanon; 1. Tripoli's city
corporatism and identity politics during the nationalist era (1920-1979);
2. Regional proxy war: Radical Islamism (1982-1986) alters Tripoli; 3. The
postwar erosion of Tripoli's city corporatism; 4. The globalization of
Islam and the crisis of religious authority; 5. The future movement:
Lebanon's political crisis and sectarianization 2005-2011; 6. Tripoli's
Islamists: Clients of Arab Gulf states or autonomous actors?; 7. The impact
of the Syrian Civil War and beyond, 2011-2020; Conclusion: What can Tripoli
tell us about violence and ideological-political activism in the Middle
East?