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

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ID3213853
AuthorsErik Skare (0000-0003-0822-2874, Centre d'études et de recherches internationales de Sciences Po, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume12
Issue11
Pages1010
Publication date2021-11-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel12111010
OpenAlexW3212212489
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited5

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

Corporate governance · Democracy · Economics · Ideology · Islam · Mythology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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