Islam in Israel: Muslim Communities in Non-Muslim States PDF
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Islam in Israel IslamisthereligionofthemajorityofArabcitizensinIsraelandsince the late 1970s has become an important factor in their political and socio-culturalidentity.ThisleadstoanincreasingnumberofMuslims inIsraelwhodefinetheiridentityfirstandforemostinrelationtotheir religiousaffiliation.Byexaminingthisevolvingreligiousidentityduring thepastfourdecadesanditsimpactonthereligiousandsocio-cultural aspects of Muslim life in Israel, Muhammad al-Atawneh and Nohad ʿAliexplorethelocalnatureofIslam.TheyfindthatMuslimsinIsrael seemtorelyheavilyontheprominentIslamicauthoritiesintheregion, perhaps more so than minority Muslims elsewhere. This stems, inter alia, from the fact that Muslims in Israel are the only minority that livesinalandtheyconsidertobeholyandseethemselvesasanatural extensionoftheMiddleEasternArabIslamiccommunity. muhammad al-atawneh is an associate professor in the Depart- ment of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.HehaspublishedextensivelyonIslamiclawandsocietyincon- temporary Arab and Islamic worlds. Research interests focus on the studyofIslaminmoderntimes,mainlyinthreeconcurrentareas:(1) Islamiclawandmodernity;(2)stateandgovernanceincontemporary Islamic thought and practice; and (3) Islam in Israel which cover sig- nificant issues regarding Muslim daily life, attitudes, beliefs, levels of (dis)satisfaction, and attitudes towards the Israeli establishment and Israelisociety. nohad ali is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Western Galilee College and senior researcher at the Jewish–Arab Center at the University of Haifa. He is the Head of theArab-Jewish-StateUnitattheSamuelNeamanInstitute,Technion. He is an expert on religious fundamentalism (Jewish and Islamic in Israel), political Islam, Jewish–Arab relations in Israel, Arab women, andviolence. Advance Praise for Islam in Israel “The case of a non-dominant Muslim minority in a highly secular, Jewish and Zioniststate,inanIslam-endowedland,ishistoricallyunprecedentedandunpar- alleled. Islam in Israel is the first book that tells us how Muslim Arabs conduct themselvesundertheseinhospitableanduniquecircumstances.” ProfessorSammySmooha,UniversityofHaifa “Israel’s 1.2 million Muslims are a unique population in the Middle East. In thisexcitingandtimelybook,Al-AtawnehandAliprovidethescholarlycommu- nity with its firstcomprehensive look at the Muslim religious identity in Israel. Throughrichlydetailedsurveydata,interviewsandnarrativeinsight,theyshow how Israeli Muslims have developed in relation to broader regional trends in IslamaswellastotheexperienceoflivingintheJewishstate.” ProfessorRameezAbbas,TheNationalDefenseUniversity, WashingtonDC “Al-AtawnehandAlipresentuswithasterlinganderuditeanalysisofaunique Muslim minority trapped in a complex political situation. This is a must-read forscholarsandlaymenwhoaregrapplingtounderstandcontemporaryIslamas politicsandidentityinnon-Muslimstates.Atourdeforce!” ProfessorNimrodLuz,WesternGalileeCollege “Thisbookisasignificantcontributiontothestudyofthreeareasoftheoretical interest:MuslimsandIslamingeneral,andinIsraelasaJewishstateinpartic- ular; minorities in general, and the Palestinian minority in Israel in particular; and interactions between religious groups in a religiously divided reality, such as that among Palestinians in Israel. Questions of coping with the challenges of modernity, attitudes towards others, processes of return to religion, and the development of a unique heritage that fits the political/social context are dis- cussed at length, in a manner that has not been discussed so far. The authors systematicallyuseavarietyofquantitative,qualitativemethodologies,anthropo- logical observations and their own involvement in the field in order to provide uswithadiverseandrealaccountofthelivesofMuslimsinIsrael.Thereisno doubtthatthecontributionoftheauthorsandthebookisabsolutelyvitaltoany studentwhohasaninterestintheaforementionedfieldsofinterest.” ProfessorAsʿʿadGhanem,UniversityofHaifa Islam in Israel Muslim Communities in Non-Muslim States Muhammad Al-Atawneh Ben-GurionUniversityoftheNegev Nohad Ali WesternGalileeCollegeandUniversityofHaifa UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi-110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06-04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108423267 DOI:10.1017/9781108525671 (cid:2)C MuhammadAl-AtawnehandNohadAli2018 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2018 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyClays,StIvesplc AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-Publicationdata Names:Al-Atawneh,MuhammadK.,author.|Ali,Nohad,author. Title:IslaminIsrael:Muslimcommunitiesinnon-Muslimstates/Muhammad Al-Atawneh,NohadAli. Description:NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,2018.|Includes bibliographicalreferencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2017034614|ISBN9781108423267(hardback) Subjects:LCSH:Islam–Israel.|Muslims–Israel. Classification:LCCBP63.I8A43 2018|DDC305.6/97095694–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2017034614 ISBN978-1-108-42326-7Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. To Nimrod Hurvitz, a scholar of depth and a man of style. Contents ListofFigures pageviii ListofTables ix Acknowledgments xiv NotesonTransliterationandTranslation xv Introduction 1 1 IslaminIsrael:Background 14 2 IslamicReligiousAuthorityandInterpretationinIsrael 33 3 IslamandthePublic:Affiliation,Religiosity,and Observance 53 4 MuslimIdentityandIslamicPracticeinIsrael 73 5 TheMuslimMinorityandtheIsraeliEstablishment: Acceptanceand/orAlienation 102 6 BeingMuslimintheIsraeliSocio-CulturalSpace 127 Conclusions 149 AppendixA:EnglishQuestionnaire 154 AppendixB:ArabicQuestionnaire 168 GlossaryofArabicTerms 177 BibliographyandSources 180 Index 193 vii Figures 1.1 ThegrowingnumberofmosquesinMuslimcommunitiesin theNegev,1973–2012 page19 4.1 Identities 90 4.2 Religiousaffiliations 96 6.1 Muslim–Jewishinteractions 133 viii
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