The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 21)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 21)

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superstitions to lead to an Islamic revival, secular
nationalists, such as Ibrahim al-Yaziji and Negib Azoury,
aimed at the removal of religion altogether from the realm
of national action. Christian intellectuals, being the
readiest tG respond to the new forces from the West and
therefore the vanguard of change, naturally desired to
establish a national state without any reference to Islam.
Christian Arab thinkers, in their role as the best
interpreters of Western values and political thought, were
the first to advocate the idea of Arab nationalism devoid
of any Islamic implications. ?® A modern state, they
emphasized, cannot have equal and less equal second-class
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citizens like the dimmis of classical Islam. The
separation of religion from the state, they argued, was
in the interest of both Islam and the Arab nation.*®
However, in their endeavor to build up a modern state on
the principle of nationality and in imitation of Western
political organization, the secular nationalists were
16h sham Sharabi, Arab Intellectuals and the West:
The Formative Years, 1875-1914 (Baltimore: The Johns
Hopkins Press, 1970), p. Li.
isn an Islamic state the dimmis or the protected
possessors of a revelation (ahl al-kitab) while. adequately
safeguarded by human rights they nevertheless are subject
to certain inequalities concerning their duties. Cf. E.I.J.
Rosenthal, Islam in the Modern National State (Cambridge:
The University Press), pp. 107-108.
18
Haim, op. cit., p. 30.

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party

تاريخ

1971-02-07

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Basil R. Al-Kubaisi

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