Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey

Front matter

C KURDISH

HIZBULLAH IN TURKEY

ISLAMISM, VIOLENCE AND THE STATE

Introduction

Theory, data, and methodology

The historical and sociological conditions of Hizbullah’s emergence

Imagining the ummah from the provinces: the establishment of Hizbullah

Ten years of violence

Hizbullah’s transformation from armed organisation to social movement

The ‘Grounded’ Dimensions of Hizbullah as Islamist

Organisation and Social Movement

Hizbullah, the individual, and daily life

Social segregation, minimal homogeneities, and the language of violence

Group belonging, religious ideology, and ethnic identity: different forms of identity within Hizbullah

Theoretical abstractions and conclusions

The Construction of Social Memory in the Stories and

Novels of Hizbullah

Social memory, history, and discourse

Uncle Bekir, Xalet, and others: the culture of devotion and the fedais of Islam

“Şehadet (martyrdom) is a call to the generations, to the ages’:

the cult of martyrdom in the discourse of Hizbullah Mürtet, tağut, and the Jew: the representation of Hizbullah’s ‘others’ in stories and novels vii

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Hizbullah self-perception and self-representation in stories

and novels

Medrese-i Yusufiye: the representation of prison and prison identity

Conclusion

Appendix: The Text of the Written Interview with Hizbullah Officials

Bibliography

Index

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