Part I.: Facts and stances. 1. What is Palestinian Islamic jihad? ; 2. Excerpts from facts and stances ; 3. Political document of Palestinian Islamic jihad ; 4. Islamic principles and concepts -- Part II. PIJ, colonialism, and the Palestinian cause ; 5. Why history? ; 6. The Palestinian cause is the central cause of the Islamic movement? Why? ; 7. Excerpts from "Afghanistan: the roots of the conflict ... the revolution ... the future ... is it a new resurgence of the crusaders?" ; 8. The centrality of Palestine and the contemporary Islamic project ; 9. Palestine is on collision course with the Western colonial project -- Part III. Iran and the Shites. 10. Excerpts from Khomeini: the Islamic solution and alternative ; 11. The Sunni and the Shite: a fabricated and regrettable pandemonium ; 12. Excerpts from Facts and stances -- Part IV. State, violence,, and civil society. 13. Restructuring the PLO: the view of Palestinian Islamic jihad ; 14. Principal notes on the issue of a Palestinian state ; 15. Fundamentalism and securalism ; 16. Excerpts from "The Islamic movements and the developments of the Palestinian cause" ; 17. Creedal and intellectual foundations for the "culture of resistance" ; 18. The philosophy of martyrdom ; 19. Excerpt from the Jihadist march of Palestinian Islamic jihad ; 20. Anwar Abu Aha on the Arab Spring and PIJ's position.
Summary:
Founded in 1981, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is one of the most important yet least understood Palestinian armed factions, both in terms of its history and ideology. Yet no in-depth translation of its ideological corpus exists. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive account of the ideology of PIJ in the movement's own words. Based on the author's extensive fieldwork and archival research in the occupied Palestinian territories and Lebanon, the book comprises the PIJ's written texts produced since 1979, translated here into English for the first time. In addition to the primary texts, the book includes expert commentary from the author for each source to help explain the context and the broader significance of the documents. The key contention of the book is that although PIJ employs Islamic signifiers and symbolism, its ideology is strikingly similar to the anti-colonialism of the PLO in the 1960s, and in stark contrast to Hamas. A comprehensive resource on the PIJ, it covers: PIJ beliefs about the Palestinian problem; what type of Islamism the PIJ espouses; how the PIJ regards Shiites and Iran; how it can be understood as an Islamist organization; what it envisions for Palestinian society in the future. This is the only sourcebook available on the PIJ.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.