Jihad in the City: Militant Islam and Contentious Politics in Tripoli

by Raphael Lefevre

Book Overview

Tawhid was a militant Islamist group which implemented Islamic law at gunpoint in the Lebanese city of Tripoli during the 1980s. In retrospect, some have called it 'the first ISIS-style Emirate'. Drawing on two hundred interviews with Islamist fighters and their mortal enemies, as well as on a trove of new archival material, Rapha l Lef vre provides a comprehensive account of this Islamist group. He shows how they featured religious ideologues determined...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108444989
• ISBN13: 9781108444989
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"