Abstract
Sara Roy has rotated her twenty-year focus on Gaza and its economy, towards a rather different quarry: her magnifying glass, in this work, is moved away to scrutinize Hamas’s social, charitable structures. And she has, in her usual meticulously-researched fashion, some quite iconoclastic things to say. Her intent is to challenge the dominant meme that defines Hamas only as a terrorist organization; an assumption which gives ‘cover’ to the implicit postulate that all Islamic institutions therefore must be mere adjuncts to some terrorist intent. It is a timely and important work. Its importance lies not only in the rigour with which she explores her explicit theme (the nature and purpose of such social entities); but perhaps even more significantly, it lies also with that which implicitly it touches on, but which is left untreated: in other words, what Hamas’s approach can tell us about the evolving nature of Sunni reformist Islamism.
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