Many in the United States and Israel believe that Hamas is nothing but a terrorist organization, and that its social sector serves merely to recruit new supporters for its violent agenda. Based on Sara Roys extensive fieldwork in the Gaza Strip and West B
Acknowledgments xi A Note on Language and Transliteration xiii Prologue xv Chapter 1: Introduction: Structure, Arguments, and Conceptual Framework 1 Chapter 2: A Brief History of Hamas and the Islamic Movement in Palestine 19 Chapter 3: Islamist Conc