Islamists in a Zionist Coalition

The Political and Religious Origins

Uriya Shavit (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2025
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-4275-5 (ISBN)

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Islamists in a Zionist Coalition: The Political and Religious Origins explores the decision made in 2021 by the United Arab List, the political arm of the Southern Branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel (SIM), to join the Israeli Zionist coalition for the first time, and specifically how and why it was possible for an Islamist movement to become the enabler of a Zionist government without losing the support of its religious scholars or political base. Through analyses of hundreds of books, columns, fatwas, media interviews, and posts on social media, as well as interviews conducted by the author with all the living leaders of the SIM and the United Arab List, Uriya Shavit demonstrates that the Islamic premises on which the SIM operates, rather than limit the party's flexibility, made it possible for the United Arab List to advance a pragmatic political agenda. This book argues that while the decision of the United Arab List to join a Zionist coalition led to dramatic consequences, it was grounded in decades of religious writings that prepared the ground for its legitimization, and aligned with a political orientation with which significant segments of the Arab population identified since the founding of the modern state of Israel.

URIYA SHAVIT is a professor of Islamic, democracy, and migration studies at Tel Aviv University. His recent books include Shari‘a and Life (2023), Scientific and Political Freedom in Islam (2017), Zionism in Arab Discourses (2016), and Shari‘a and Muslim Minorities (2015).

Introduction: Deep Currents and Butterflies’ Wings
1 Islamism in Israel: Its Origins and Rivals
2 The SIM and the Pro-Coalition Tendency
3 The Path of Idealist Pragmatism
4 Abyssinia, Antarctica, and the Pro-Participation Discourse
Conclusion: The “Experiment” and Its Aftermath
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index

Introduction: Deep Currents and Butterflies’ Wings 1
1 Islamism in Israel: Its Origins and Rivals 12
2 The SIM and the Pro-coalition Tendency 38
3 The Path of Idealist Pragmatism 70
4 Abyssinia, Antarctica, and the Pro-participation Discourse 98
Conclusion: The “Experiment” and Its Aftermath 124
Acknowledgments 139
Notes 141
Bibliography 161
Index 000

Erscheinungsdatum	26.04.2025
Zusatzinfo	None
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	59 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-9788-4275-9 / 1978842759
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-4275-5 / 9781978842755
Zustand	Neuware