Tripoli, Lebanon's 'Sunni City' is often presented as an Islamist
or even Jihadi city. However, this misleading label conceals a much
deeper 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, exploring the city's contentious
politics, its fluid political identity, and the relations between
Islamist and sectarian groups. Offering an alternative explanation
for Tripoli's decades of political troubles - rather than
emphasizing Islamic radicalism as the principal explanation - she
argues that it is Lebanese clientelism and the decay of the state
that produced the rise of violent Islamist movements in Tripoli. By
providing a corrective to previous assumptions, this book not only
expands our understanding of Lebanese politics, but of the wider
religious and political dynamics in the Middle East.
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