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"Tripoli, Lebanon's 'Sunni City' is often presented as an Islamist or even Jihadi city. However, this misleading label conceals a much deeper history of resistance and collaboration with the state and the wider region. Based on more than a decade of fieldwork and using a broad array of primary sources, Tine Gade analyses the modern history of Tripoli, exploring the city's contentious politics, its fluid political identity, and the relations between Islamist and sectarian groups. Offering an alternative explanation for Tripoli's decades of political troubles - rather than emphasizing Islamic radicalism as the principal explanation - she argues that it is Lebanese clientelism and the decay of the state that produced the rise of violent Islamist movements in Tripoli. By providing a corrective to previous assumptions, this book not only expands our understanding of Lebanese politics, but of the wider religious and political dynamics in the Middle East"--
Sommario
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?
Info autore
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.
Riassunto
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.
Prefazione
Analyses contentious politics in Tripoli, Lebanon's Sunni city, and the relations between Islamist and sectarian groups in governing the city.
