What is an Arab ? In the narrowest racial sense an Arab is an indigenous inhabitant of the Arabian Peninsula , with fairly well - defined physical and social characteristics . In this sense the Arabic - speaking peoples outside the ...
Author: John Marlowe
Publisher:
ISBN: UCBK:C054616369
Category: Arab nationalism
Page: 236
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The triumph of the Ottomans was complete . ” Marriott , J . A . R . , The Eastern Question ( Oxford 1917 . . . 1947 ) , p . 66 . Number ” , 1 captured Belgrade , invaded Hungary and The Emergence of Arab Nationalism.
Author: Zeine N. Zeine
Publisher:
ISBN: UVA:X000140417
Category: Arab countries
Page: 205
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Such preoccupations cannot trouble Christian writers , of course , yet we find them saying with even more vehemence and eloquence than the Muslims that the relation between Islam and Arab nationalism is intimate and that Islam should be ...
Author: Sylvia Kedourie
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category: Arab countries
Page: 255
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Under these conditions Arab nationalism was at a dead end . Arab nationalism found itself caught in a contradiction of major proportion . Its failure to challenge the position of control of imperialism ran counter to the very essence of ...
Author: Abbas Alnasrawi
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN: 0313276102
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 221
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Contending that Arab economic development was shaped by Arab nationalist thought, the emergence of the oil industry in the Arab region, and the integration of Arab economies into the international economic system, Alnasrawi analyzes the evolution of each of the three forces and their impact on the evolution of the Arab economies, along with their present status. The volume develops the concept of derivative dependency which demonstrates the affect of the economies of oil-producing states on the economies of non-oil states. A timely epilogue focuses on the current Iraq/Kuwait situation.Nasser's repeated emphasis on Arab nationalism as a " weapon , ” an indispensible strategic prerequisite in the struggle against imperialism , reflected this heightened importance . Defining , therefore , Egyptian national interests ...
Author: James P. Jankowski
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 1588260348
Category: History
Page: 235
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During the crucial decade of the 1950s in Egypt, both Gamal Abdel Nasser and the idea of Arab nationalism were assuming more and more influence in Egypt and the greater Arab world. Exploring this phenomenon, James Jankowski also offers important insights into the political context in which Nasser maneuvered. Jankowski focuses on the period from the 1952 Revolution in Egypt to the dissolution of the short-lived union of Egypt and Syria in 1961 - and on the outlook and actions of Nasser, the dominant figure in Egypt's new revolutionary regime. Concisely and convincingly, he identifies the unique blend of ideological and practical considerations that led Egypt to a progressively deeper involvement in Arab nationalism. He draws on newly available materials from the U.S. and British archives and on the memoir literature now available in Arabic to present a detailed reconstruction of this formative period in Egyptian political history. Jankowski traces Egypt's - and Nasser's - movement from a peripheral to a central position in Arab nationalist politics.The Lebanese writer Nagib Azoury provided the definition of the Arab nation already in the title of his well-known book La Nation Arabe dans L'Asie Turque published in Paris 1905. This early Arab nationalism was secular in orientation.
Author: B. Tibi
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9780230376540
Category: Political Science
Page: 365
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The third edition includes a new Part Five on the tensions between Arab nationalism and Islam arising from the crisis of the nation-state and of the de-legitimisation of Pan-Arab regimes. The effects of the Arab defeat in the Six-Day War 1967 and the rise of political Islam in the 1970s are the focus of the new part. The background of the analysis of the impact and function of nationalism and its contribution to social and political change in the Third World, taking the rise of nationalism in the Middle East as a historical example. Professor Tibi concentrates on the period after the First World War, when many Arab intellectuals became disillusioned with Britain and France as a result of the occupation of their countries. One focus of this study are the writings and influence of Sati' al-Husri on Middle Eastern politics. Professor Tibi illustrates the connection between modern Arab nationalism and nineteenth-century German Romantic nationalism, which will be of particular interest to the English reader. Professor Tibi concludes that while nationalism has played a necessary and important role in the movement for national independence in the Middle East, it has since developed into an ideology which seems to obstruct further social and political emancipation. This third edition, brought completely up to date by a substantial new introduction and two new concluding chapters, will be of particular interest to historians and social scientists dealing with nationalism and crises of the nation-state as well as to students of the Middle East and contemporary Islam.Arab nationalism has been one of the dominant ideologies in the Middle East and North Africa since the early twentieth century. However, a clear definition of Arab nationalism, even as a subject of scholarly inquiry, does not yet exist.
Author: Peter Wien
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781315412191
Category: History
Page: 286
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Arab nationalism has been one of the dominant ideologies in the Middle East and North Africa since the early twentieth century. However, a clear definition of Arab nationalism, even as a subject of scholarly inquiry, does not yet exist. Arab Nationalism sheds light on cultural expressions of Arab nationalism and the sometimes contradictory meanings attached to it in the process of identity formation in the modern world. It presents nationalism as an experienceable set of identity markers – in stories, visual culture, narratives of memory, and struggles with ideology, sometimes in culturally sophisticated forms, sometimes in utterly vulgar forms of expression. Drawing upon various case studies, the book transcends a conventional history that reduces nationalism in the Arab lands to a pattern of political rise and decline. It offers a glimpse at ways in which Arabs have constructed an identifiable shared national culture, and it critically dissects conceptions about Arab nationalism as an easily graspable secular and authoritarian ideology modeled on Western ideas and visions of modernity. This book offers an entirely new portrayal of nationalism and a crucial update to the field, and as such, is indispensable reading for students, scholars and policymakers looking to gain a deeper understanding of nationalism in the Arab world.Wamid Jamal Nazmi, in “The Iraqi Shiites and the Question of Arab Nationalism,” writes that there are three reasons for Shiite Arab nationalist feelings and solidarity with the Sunnis, whose Arab nationalist credentials are not in ...
Author: Tawfic E Farah
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781000311044
Category: Political Science
Page: 208
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Now that the oil era has come to a very unceremonious end in the Arab Mashreq, it is time for a sober and somber assessment-a selfcriticism- of the Arab body politic. Indeed, this effort at self-criticism is already underway, led by the many symposiums sponsored by the Center for Arab Unity Studies and the Arab Intellectual Forum.As late as the early twentieth century, a Syrian Christian judge, who was later to become a Minister in the post-World War I Arab administration in Damascus under the Hashemite Faysal, remarked that if there were any national sentiment, ...
Author: Adeed Dawisha
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9781400880829
Category: History
Page: 368
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Like a great dynasty that falls to ruin and is eventually remembered more for its faults than its feats, Arab nationalism is remembered mostly for its humiliating rout in the 1967 Six Day War, for inter-Arab divisions, and for words and actions distinguished by their meagerness. But people tend to forget the majesty that Arab nationalism once was. In this elegantly narrated and richly documented book, Adeed Dawisha brings this majesty to life through a sweeping historical account of its dramatic rise and fall. Dawisha argues that Arab nationalism--which, he says, was inspired by nineteenth-century German Romantic nationalism--really took root after World War I and not in the nineteenth century, as many believe, and that it blossomed only in the 1950s and 1960s under the charismatic leadership of Egypt's Gamal 'Abd al-Nasir. He traces the ideology's passage from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire through its triumphant ascendancy in the late 1950s with the unity of Egypt and Syria and with the nationalist revolution of Iraq, to the mortal blow it received in the 1967 Arab defeat by Israel, and its eventual eclipse. Dawisha criticizes the common failure to distinguish between the broader, cultural phenomenon of "Arabism" and the political, secular desire for a united Arab state that defined Arab nationalism. In recent decades competitive ideologies--not least, Islamic militancy--have inexorably supplanted the latter, he contends. Dawisha, who grew up in Iraq during the heyday of Arab nationalism, infuses his work with rare personal insight and extraordinary historical breadth. In addition to Western sources, he draws on an unprecedented wealth of Arab political memoirs and studies to tell the fascinating story of one of the most colorful and significant periods of the contemporary Arab world. In doing so, he also gives us the means to more fully understand trends in the region today. Complete with a hard-hitting new and expanded section that surveys recent nationalism and events in the Middle East, Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century tells the fascinating story of one of the most colorful and significant periods in twentieth-century Middle Eastern history.