Hamas: a Conflict Within
Hamas: A Conflict Within
Brief Introduction:
Studying religious phenomenon in Arab communities has increased recently due to the public interaction with religious movements, which as a result increased the impact of these groups on various aspects of life; economic, political and military. Despite the great attention directed toward studying these religious movements in Arab communities, political sociology in the Arab world – with all its continuous efforts in the area - did not contribute much in analyzing this phenomenon.
This research is an attempt to explore one of these groups Hamas; the Islamic resistance movement in Palestine. Hamas was founded in 1987 as an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. The Co-founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin stated that Hamas was founded to liberate Palestine from the Israeli occupation and to establish an Islamic state in the area that is now Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas. In 2007 a takeover in Gaza by Hamas happened after Palestinian parliamentary elections and deadly clashes with Fatah political organization which is considered a major political party in Palestine.
Summary of the Research:
This research is an attempt to analyze Hamas in terms of its unity and a trial to observe and analyze the characteristics that shape the relations between individuals and different currents within the movement. It will focus on the conflict within the movement and the causes behind this conflict and in order to conduct such research certain methodologies will be followed. This research can be considered as a first attempt to address this topic which was not addressed previously. As a result of this most of the data gathered relevant to the topic will be obtained for the first time which introduces extra difficulty and increase the significance of this research. Both questionnaires and interviews will be conducted with members of Hamas in Gaza Strip and those who live abroad mainly in
Brief Introduction:
Studying religious phenomenon in Arab communities has increased recently due to the public interaction with religious movements, which as a result increased the impact of these groups on various aspects of life; economic, political and military. Despite the great attention directed toward studying these religious movements in Arab communities, political sociology in the Arab world – with all its continuous efforts in the area - did not contribute much in analyzing this phenomenon.
This research is an attempt to explore one of these groups Hamas; the Islamic resistance movement in Palestine. Hamas was founded in 1987 as an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. The Co-founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin stated that Hamas was founded to liberate Palestine from the Israeli occupation and to establish an Islamic state in the area that is now Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas. In 2007 a takeover in Gaza by Hamas happened after Palestinian parliamentary elections and deadly clashes with Fatah political organization which is considered a major political party in Palestine.
Summary of the Research:
This research is an attempt to analyze Hamas in terms of its unity and a trial to observe and analyze the characteristics that shape the relations between individuals and different currents within the movement. It will focus on the conflict within the movement and the causes behind this conflict and in order to conduct such research certain methodologies will be followed. This research can be considered as a first attempt to address this topic which was not addressed previously. As a result of this most of the data gathered relevant to the topic will be obtained for the first time which introduces extra difficulty and increase the significance of this research. Both questionnaires and interviews will be conducted with members of Hamas in Gaza Strip and those who live abroad mainly in