Controlling the State in the Political Theory of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Existing scholarship has largely focused on the violence of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) when analyzing their response to Oslo Agreement establishment National Authority (PA) in 1990s. The Islamist opposition’s contribution political thought been ignored, however, although prospects self-rule confronted two movements with fundamental questions about social organization, governance, permissibility democracy. I offer an analysis key PIJ texts from this period demonstrate that fundamentally differ state organization just society. While outlines a state-centric approach governance through which values are enforced above, perceives be greatest threat This article consequently dispels myth had no significant ideological differences