Islam and Salvation in Palestine: The Islamic Jihad Movement

From: The Middle East Journal | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

PALESTINE AND PALESTINIANS

Islam and Salvation in Palestine: The Islamic Jihad Movement, by Meir Hating. The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies: Tel Aviv, 2001. 138 pages. Notes to p.168. Bibl. to p. 174. Index to p. 180. $14.95.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad was established in Gaza in 1981 and while generally eclipsed by its larger partner in the Islamicised Palestinian opposition to Israel, Hamas, throughout the 1980s and 1990s it played an important role in setting the agenda of resistance to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and the Oslo Accords ...

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