A01=Uriya Shavit
Author_Uriya Shavit
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fatwas
islam
Islamic Movement in Israel
israel
Israeli Zionist coalition
judiasm
media
palestine
politcs
political science
politics
religion
SIM
Southern Branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel
United Arab List
zionism
Product details
- ISBN 9781978842748
- Weight: 45g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Mar 2025
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Islamists in a Zionist Coalition: The Political and Religious Origins explores the decision made in 2021 by the United Arab List, the political arm of the Southern Branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel (SIM), to join the Israeli Zionist coalition for the first time, and specifically how and why it was possible for an Islamist movement to become the enabler of a Zionist government without losing the support of its religious scholars or political base. Through analyses of hundreds of books, columns, fatwas, media interviews, and posts on social media, as well as interviews conducted by the author with all the living leaders of the SIM and the United Arab List, Uriya Shavit demonstrates that the Islamic premises on which the SIM operates, rather than limit the party's flexibility, made it possible for the United Arab List to advance a pragmatic political agenda. This book argues that while the decision of the United Arab List to join a Zionist coalition led to dramatic consequences, it was grounded in decades of religious writings that prepared the ground for its legitimization, and aligned with a political orientation with which significant segments of the Arab population identified since the founding of the modern state of Israel.
URIYA SHAVIT is a professor of Islamic, democracy, and migration studies at Tel Aviv University. His recent books include Shari‘a and Life (2023), Scientific and Political Freedom in Islam (2017), Zionism in Arab Discourses (2016), and Shari‘a and Muslim Minorities (2015).
