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Declared a terrorist menace yet elected to government in a free election, Hamas now stands as the most important Sunni Islamist group in the Middle East.
How did Hamas grow to be so powerful? Who supports it? What is its future? This essential insight into Hamas answers these questions.
Milton-Edwards and Farrell have between them spent decades researching and reporting from the heartlands of the Hamas movement and gained unrivalled access to the world of Islamic resistance and radical Islam in its potent Palestinian form.
Drawing on their frontline experiences of recent events, their
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Produktbeschreibung
Declared a terrorist menace yet elected to government in a free election, Hamas now stands as the most important Sunni Islamist group in the Middle East.

How did Hamas grow to be so powerful? Who supports it? What is its future? This essential insight into Hamas answers these questions.

Milton-Edwards and Farrell have between them spent decades researching and reporting from the heartlands of the Hamas movement and gained unrivalled access to the world of Islamic resistance and radical Islam in its potent Palestinian form.

Drawing on their frontline experiences of recent events, their access to secret documents from the western intelligence community and interviews with leaders, militants, and commanders of Hamas' armed battalions, they reveal the full story of Hamas and the future of political Islam in the Middle East.

Milton-Edwards and Farrell show Hamas to be a broad and thus more powerful regional phenomenon than previously thought, and by doing so contend that it is now time to rethink the war and the nature of Islam and its role in the Middle East.

Beverley Milton-Edwards is Professor in the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queens University, Belfast. She is the author of books such as Contemporary Politics in the Middle East (2006) and The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: a People's War (2009). Prize-winning journalist Stephen Farrell is Foreign Correspondent for the New York Times and was previously Middle East correspondent for The Times.
Autorenporträt
Beverley Milton-Edwards is Reader in Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Stephen Farrell is Foreign Correspondent for The New York Times and former middle East Correspondent for The Times.
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"Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell's Hamas is an engaging, at times riveting, insightful and provocative analysis that is both timely and required reading for policymakers, experts and concerned citizens. Few Islamic movements have been and continue to be more controversial and influential than HAMAS as a militia and major political party and force in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict." -- John L. Esposito, Georgetown University, author of The Future of Islam and co-author of Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think.

"Hamas remains one of the main Islamist organizations of the Arab world and while it is squarely located in Palestine, the power of its message and the audacity of its activities, as well as its role in the wider Arab-Israeli conflict, give it a status, voice and influence that is well beyond its currently narrow administrative base in the Gaza Strip. In this book, Milton-Edwards and Farrell not only provide a solid analysis of this organization but apply their considerable expertise to also show that the rest of the world ignores it at its peril." -- Anoush Ehteshami, author of Globalization and Geopolitics in the Middle East: Old Games, New Rules (2007)