Mehmet Kurt is the British Academy Newton Advanced Post-Doctoral Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. His areas of expertise are Kurdish Islamist groups, social movements, radicalisation, the Kurdish issue in Turkey, visual ethnography and oral history. He is the author of Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey (Pluto, 2017).

'An excellent ethnographic analysis of the impact of Islamism within the Kurdish movement in Turkey, a must read for those especially interested in the interaction of religion and ethnic identity in the Middle East'

• Preface to the English TranslationAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Historical Overview of Hizbullah2. The 'Grounded' Dimensions of Hizbullah as Islamist Organisation and Social Movement3. The Construction of Social Memory in the Stories and Novels of HizbullahConclusionAppendix: The Text of the Written Interview with Hizbullah OfficialsNotesBibliographyIndex

Mehmet Kurt is the British Academy Newton Advanced Post-Doctoral Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. His areas of expertise are Kurdish Islamist groups, social movements, radicalisation, the Kurdish issue in Turkey, visual ethnography and oral history. He is the author of Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey (Pluto, 2017).

'An excellent ethnographic analysis of the impact of Islamism within the Kurdish movement in Turkey, a must read for those especially interested in the interaction of religion and ethnic identity in the Middle East'

• Preface to the English TranslationAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Historical Overview of Hizbullah2. The 'Grounded' Dimensions of Hizbullah as Islamist Organisation and Social Movement3. The Construction of Social Memory in the Stories and Novels of HizbullahConclusionAppendix: The Text of the Written Interview with Hizbullah OfficialsNotesBibliographyIndex

Mehmet Kurt is the British Academy Newton Advanced Post-Doctoral Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. His areas of expertise are Kurdish Islamist groups, social movements, radicalisation, the Kurdish issue in Turkey, visual ethnography and oral history. He is the author of Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey (Pluto, 2017).

'An excellent ethnographic analysis of the impact of Islamism within the Kurdish movement in Turkey, a must read for those especially interested in the interaction of religion and ethnic identity in the Middle East'

• Preface to the English TranslationAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Historical Overview of Hizbullah2. The 'Grounded' Dimensions of Hizbullah as Islamist Organisation and Social Movement3. The Construction of Social Memory in the Stories and Novels of HizbullahConclusionAppendix: The Text of the Written Interview with Hizbullah OfficialsNotesBibliographyIndex