Hamas and civil society in Gaza : engaging the Islamist social sector / Sara Roy.

Princeton, New Jersey ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, 2011.

xix, 361 pages : Grayscale Illustration ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover Photos: Flag image courtesy of Shutterstock A Palestinian laborer works at a construction site in the northern Gaza Strip. Courtesy of Corbis Images.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])

Published by Princeton University Press.

Second printing, and first paperback printing, 2014.

This book has been composed in Sabon.

Printed on acid-free paper.

Printed in the United States of America.

Introduction: Structure, Arguments, and Conceptual Framework -- A Brief History of Hamas and the Islamic Movement in Palestine -- Islamist Conceptions of Civil Society -- The Evolution of Islamist Social Institutions in the Gaza Strip: Before and during Oslo (a Sociopolitical History) -- Islamist Social Institutions: Creating a Descriptive Context -- Islamist Social Institutions: Key Analytical Findings -- A Changing Islamist Order? From Civic Empowerment to Civic Regression—the Second Intifada and Beyond.