Tamimi: Hamas: A History from Within; Chehab: Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement; and Lybarger: Identity and Religion in Palestine: The Struggle between Islamism and Secularism in the Occupied Territories

VOL. 37

2007/2008

No. 3

P. 93

Recent Books

Tamimi: Hamas: A History from Within; Chehab: Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement; and Lybarger: Identity and Religion in Palestine: The Struggle between Islamism and Secularism in the Occupied Territories

Reviewed by Khaled Hroub

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ABSTRACT

Hamas: A History from Within, by Azzam Tamimi. Massachusetts: Olive Branch Press, 2007. xii+264. Appendices to p. 316. Notes to p. 357. Index to p. 372. $20.00 paper.

Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement, by Zaki Chehab. New York: Nation Books, 2007. xi + 227. Notes to p. 236. Index to p. 244. $15.95 paper.

Identity and Religion in Palestine: The Struggle between Islamism and Secularism in the Occupied Territories, by Loren D. Lybarger. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. xxi + 246 pages. References to p. 255. Index to p. 256. $39.50 cloth.

Khaled Hroub is the author of Hamas: Political Thought and Practice (Institute for Palestine Studies, 2000) and Hamas: A Beginner’s Guide (Pluto Press, 2006).