Hamas
Subtitle: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad
Contributors: Dennis Ross (Foreword)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: May 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780300110531
Subjects: Revolutions & coups; Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Palestine; Middle East - General; Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism; History / Middle East; General; Da°wah (Islam); Israel; Suicide bombings
First sentence: Hamas, both an acronym for Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya (Islamic Resistance Movement) and an Arabic word meaning "zeal," is a Palestinian Islamist group that emerged in 1987 as an outgrowth of the Palestinian branch of the Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood.