Tine Gade is Senior Research Fellow in the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs' (NUPI) Research Group on Peace, Conflict and Development. She is a former Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute and the 2012 recipient of the Michel Seurat prize. She has conducted fieldwork on Sunni movements in Lebanon since 2008 and in Iraq since 2016. This is her first book, and it builds on her extensive research during her doctoral studies at Sciences Po Paris.

'The story of Tripoli is rich and fascinating, and Gade tells it with deep insight and sympathy. Based on years of meticulous research, the book provides a new vantage point to evaluate Lebanese politics: the country's second metropolis, where citizens both resist and reshape the state.' Hannes Baumann, University of Liverpool

• Introduction: Tripoli, secondary city of Lebanon; 1. Tripoli's city corporatism and identity politics during the nationalist era (1920–1979); 2. Regional proxy war: Radical Islamism (1982–1986) alters Tripoli; 3. The postwar erosion of Tripoli's city corporatism; 4. The globalization of Islam and the crisis of religious authority; 5. The future movement: Lebanon's political crisis and sectarianization 2005–2011; 6. Tripoli's Islamists: Clients of Arab Gulf states or autonomous actors?; 7. The impact of the Syrian Civil War and beyond, 2011–2020; Conclusion: What can Tripoli tell us about violence and ideological-political activism in the Middle East?