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Sunni City Tripoli, Lebanon’s ‘Sunni City’, is often presented as an Islamist or evenjihadicity.However,thismisleadinglabelconcealsamuchdeeper history of resistance and collaboration with the state and the wider region. Based on more than a decade of fieldwork and using a broad array of primary sources, Tine Gade analyses the modern history of Tripoli,exploringthecity’scontentiouspolitics,itsfluidpoliticaliden- tity, and the relations between Islamist and sectarian groups. Offering an alternative explanation for Tripoli’s decades of political troubles – ratherthanemphasizingIslamicradicalismastheprincipalexplanation– shearguesthatitisLebaneseclientelismandthedecayofthestatethat producedtheriseofviolentIslamistmovementsinTripoli.Byprovid- ingacorrectivetopreviousassumptions,thisbookexpandsourunder- standing of not only Lebanese politics but the wider religious and politicaldynamicsintheMiddleEast. Tine Gade is Senior Research Fellow in the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs’ (NUPI)Research Group on Peace, Conflict and Development. She is a former Max Weber fellow at the European University Instituteand the2012recipient oftheMichel Seuratprize. She has conducted fieldwork on Sunni movements in Lebanon since 2008andinIraqsince2016.Thisisherfirstbook,anditbuildsonher extensiveresearchduringherdoctoralstudiesatSciencesPoParis(The ParisInstituteofPoliticalStudies). Published online by Cambridge University Press Cambridge Middle East Studies EditorialBoard CharlesTripp(generaleditor) JuliaClancy-Smith F.GregoryGause YezidSayigh AviShlaim JudithE.Tucker Cambridge Middle East Studies has been established to publish books on the nineteenth- to twenty-first-century Middle East and North Africa. The series offers new and original interpretations of aspects of Middle Eastern societies and their histories. To achieve disciplinarydiversity,booksaresolicitedfromauthorswritinginawide rangeoffieldsincluding history,sociology, anthropology, political sci- ence, and political economy. The emphasis is on producing books affording an original approach along theoretical and empirical lines. Theseriesisintendedforstudentsandacademics,butthemoreaccess- ible and wide-ranging studies will also appeal to the interested generalreader. Alistofbooksintheseriescanbefoundaftertheindex. Published online by Cambridge University Press Sunni City Tripoli from Islamist Utopia to the Lebanese ‘Revolution’ Tine Gade NorwegianInstituteofInternationalAffairs Published online by Cambridge University Press ShaftesburyRoad,CambridgeCB28EA,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 103PenangRoad,#05–06/07,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore238467 CambridgeUniversityPressispartofCambridgeUniversityPress&Assessment, adepartmentoftheUniversityofCambridge. WesharetheUniversity’smissiontocontributetosocietythroughthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781009222761 DOI:10.1017/9781009222808 ©TineGade2022 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisions ofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements,noreproductionofanypartmaytake placewithoutthewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress&Assessment. Firstpublished2022 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Gade,Tine,author. Title:SunniCity:TripolifromIslamistutopiatotheLebanese‘revolution’/ TineGade. Othertitles:CambridgeMiddleEaststudies. Description:Cambridge;NewYork,NY:CambridgeUniversityPress,[2023]| Series:CambridgeMiddleEaststudies|Includesbibliographicalreferences andindex. Identifiers:LCCN2022010284(print)|LCCN2022010285(ebook)| ISBN9781009222761(hardback)|ISBN9781009222778(paperback)| ISBN9781009222808(epub) Subjects:LCSH:Islamandpolitics–Lebanon–Tripoli.|Sunnites–Lebanon– Tripoli.|Politicalviolence–Lebanon–Tripoli.|Tripoli(Lebanon)–Politics andgovernment. Classification:LCCDS89.T7G332023 (print)|LCCDS89.T7 (ebook)| DDC956.92–dc23/eng/20220405 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2022010284 LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2022010285 ISBN978-1-009-22276-1Hardback CambridgeUniversityPress&Assessmenthasnoresponsibilityforthepersistence oraccuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhis publicationanddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwill remain,accurateorappropriate. Published online by Cambridge University Press Sunni City Tripoli, Lebanon’s ‘Sunni City’, is often presented as an Islamist or evenjihadicity.However,thismisleadinglabelconcealsamuchdeeper history of resistance and collaboration with the state and the wider region. Based on more than a decade of fieldwork and using a broad array of primary sources, Tine Gade analyses the modern history of Tripoli,exploringthecity’scontentiouspolitics,itsfluidpoliticaliden- tity, and the relations between Islamist and sectarian groups. Offering an alternative explanation for Tripoli’s decades of political troubles – ratherthanemphasizingIslamicradicalismastheprincipalexplanation– shearguesthatitisLebaneseclientelismandthedecayofthestatethat producedtheriseofviolentIslamistmovementsinTripoli.Byprovid- ingacorrectivetopreviousassumptions,thisbookexpandsourunder- standing of not only Lebanese politics but the wider religious and politicaldynamicsintheMiddleEast. Tine Gade is Senior Research Fellow in the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs’ (NUPI)Research Group on Peace, Conflict and Development. She is a former Max Weber fellow at the European University Instituteand the2012recipient oftheMichel Seuratprize. She has conducted fieldwork on Sunni movements in Lebanon since 2008andinIraqsince2016.Thisisherfirstbook,anditbuildsonher extensiveresearchduringherdoctoralstudiesatSciencesPoParis(The ParisInstituteofPoliticalStudies). Published online by Cambridge University Press Cambridge Middle East Studies EditorialBoard CharlesTripp(generaleditor) JuliaClancy-Smith F.GregoryGause YezidSayigh AviShlaim JudithE.Tucker Cambridge Middle East Studies has been established to publish books on the nineteenth- to twenty-first-century Middle East and North Africa. The series offers new and original interpretations of aspects of Middle Eastern societies and their histories. To achieve disciplinarydiversity,booksaresolicitedfromauthorswritinginawide rangeoffieldsincluding history,sociology, anthropology, political sci- ence, and political economy. The emphasis is on producing books affording an original approach along theoretical and empirical lines. Theseriesisintendedforstudentsandacademics,butthemoreaccess- ible and wide-ranging studies will also appeal to the interested generalreader. Alistofbooksintheseriescanbefoundaftertheindex. Published online by Cambridge University Press Sunni City Tripoli from Islamist Utopia to the Lebanese ‘Revolution’ Tine Gade NorwegianInstituteofInternationalAffairs Published online by Cambridge University Press ShaftesburyRoad,CambridgeCB28EA,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 103PenangRoad,#05–06/07,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore238467 CambridgeUniversityPressispartofCambridgeUniversityPress&Assessment, adepartmentoftheUniversityofCambridge. WesharetheUniversity’smissiontocontributetosocietythroughthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781009222761 DOI:10.1017/9781009222808 ©TineGade2022 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisions ofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements,noreproductionofanypartmaytake placewithoutthewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress&Assessment. Firstpublished2022 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Gade,Tine,author. Title:SunniCity:TripolifromIslamistutopiatotheLebanese‘revolution’/ TineGade. Othertitles:CambridgeMiddleEaststudies. Description:Cambridge;NewYork,NY:CambridgeUniversityPress,[2023]| Series:CambridgeMiddleEaststudies|Includesbibliographicalreferences andindex. Identifiers:LCCN2022010284(print)|LCCN2022010285(ebook)| ISBN9781009222761(hardback)|ISBN9781009222778(paperback)| ISBN9781009222808(epub) Subjects:LCSH:Islamandpolitics–Lebanon–Tripoli.|Sunnites–Lebanon– Tripoli.|Politicalviolence–Lebanon–Tripoli.|Tripoli(Lebanon)–Politics andgovernment. Classification:LCCDS89.T7G332023 (print)|LCCDS89.T7 (ebook)| DDC956.92–dc23/eng/20220405 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2022010284 LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2022010285 ISBN978-1-009-22276-1Hardback CambridgeUniversityPress&Assessmenthasnoresponsibilityforthepersistence oraccuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhis publicationanddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwill remain,accurateorappropriate. Published online by Cambridge University Press Sunni City Tripoli, Lebanon’s ‘Sunni City’, is often presented as an Islamist or evenjihadicity.However,thismisleadinglabelconcealsamuchdeeper history of resistance and collaboration with the state and the wider region. Based on more than a decade of fieldwork and using a broad array of primary sources, Tine Gade analyses the modern history of Tripoli,exploringthecity’scontentiouspolitics,itsfluidpoliticaliden- tity, and the relations between Islamist and sectarian groups. Offering an alternative explanation for Tripoli’s decades of political troubles – ratherthanemphasizingIslamicradicalismastheprincipalexplanation– shearguesthatitisLebaneseclientelismandthedecayofthestatethat producedtheriseofviolentIslamistmovementsinTripoli.Byprovid- ingacorrectivetopreviousassumptions,thisbookexpandsourunder- standing of not only Lebanese politics but the wider religious and politicaldynamicsintheMiddleEast. Tine Gade is Senior Research Fellow in the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs’ (NUPI)Research Group on Peace, Conflict and Development. She is a former Max Weber fellow at the European University Instituteand the2012recipient oftheMichel Seuratprize. She has conducted fieldwork on Sunni movements in Lebanon since 2008andinIraqsince2016.Thisisherfirstbook,anditbuildsonher extensiveresearchduringherdoctoralstudiesatSciencesPoParis(The ParisInstituteofPoliticalStudies). Published online by Cambridge University Press Cambridge Middle East Studies EditorialBoard CharlesTripp(generaleditor) JuliaClancy-Smith F.GregoryGause YezidSayigh AviShlaim JudithE.Tucker Cambridge Middle East Studies has been established to publish books on the nineteenth- to twenty-first-century Middle East and North Africa. The series offers new and original interpretations of aspects of Middle Eastern societies and their histories. To achieve disciplinarydiversity,booksaresolicitedfromauthorswritinginawide rangeoffieldsincluding history,sociology, anthropology, political sci- ence, and political economy. The emphasis is on producing books affording an original approach along theoretical and empirical lines. Theseriesisintendedforstudentsandacademics,butthemoreaccess- ible and wide-ranging studies will also appeal to the interested generalreader. Alistofbooksintheseriescanbefoundaftertheindex. Published online by Cambridge University Press
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