Ashes of Hama: The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria by Raphael Lefevre
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Overview: "Lefevre has produced a richly detailed, well-written, and sober analytical account of the history of Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood. He does an outstanding job of bringing together a wide range of English, French, and Arabic sources to convincingly place the Syrian Brotherhood within its local political context. Ashes of Hama is without question the best available comprehensive English-language work on Syrian Islamist politics." –Foreign Policy, "Best of 2013"
"To understand the blood-letting in Syria there is no better guide than Raphaël Lefèvre s brilliant, wonderfully-sourced and timely book. He demonstrates that the current vicious civil war is but the latest phase of a fifty-year struggle between the Muslim Brothers and the secular Ba’ath Party." –Patrick Seale, author of Asad: The Struggle for the Middle East
"An impressive and unprecedented compendium of research." — New York Journal of Books
When the convulsions of the Arab Spring first became manifest in Syria in March 2011, the Ba’athist regime was quick to blame the protests on the "Syrian Muslim Brotherhood" and its "al-Qaeda affiliates." But who are these Islamists so determined to rule a post-Assad Syria?
In this ground-breaking account of Syria’s most prominent, yet highly secretive, Islamist organisation, the author draws on previously untapped sources: the memoirs of former Syrian jihadists; British and American archives; and also a series of wide-ranging interviews with the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood’s historical leaders as well as those who battled against them–many speaking on the record for the first time. Ashes of Hama uncovers the major aspects of the Islamist struggle: from the Brotherhood’s radicalisation and its "jihad" against the Ba’athist regime and subsequent exile, to a spectacular comeback at the forefront of the Syrian revolution in 2011–a remarkable turnaround for an Islamist movement which all analysts had pronounced dead amid the ruins of Hama in 1982.
Genre: Non Fiction | History > Politics
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