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This book looks at how Islam has been used by Palestinian nationalists in order to gain support from Muslims around the world. It examines how Islam has been used at different stages in the development of the Palestinian nationalist movement and what socio-economic factors help to explain this.
The intention of this book is to explore the relationship between an ideological idiom and the changing social movement in which it operates. The basic question is that of what roles an Islamic symbol complex played in different phases of the Palestinian nationalist movement, and what were the socio-economic factors which help to explain, and are themselves partially explained by, the appearance of these roles. Islam was ideologically 'appropriate' at different stages in the development of the movement, and this study examines in what way, and why. First published in 1982.
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