The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 22)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 22)

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inclined to reduce religion "to the role of mentor of the
individual conscience and a medium of personal relationship
with the divinity."??
The secular nationalists developed a positive
program based on the ideals of Anglo-Saxon liberalism. This
involved, apart from the separation of religion from state:
the introduction of modern technology; the propagation of
education; the encouragement of local initiative in the
exploitation of the nation's resources; broadening the extent
of political, social and intellectual liberties; and the
reform of administrative procedures. 7°
Besides the above nationalist program which was
supported by a substantial middle class of professionals,
officials and intellectuals, symptoms of socialist thinking
began to appear in the Arabic periodical press as early as
the late nineteenth century. Such thinking was again for
the most part spread by Christian intellectuals who were
usually the product of Western education. They maintained
that national independence was of no value in itself, to be
Meaningful it should be combined with social change.
19 catran, Op. cit., p. 85.
20R. Bayly Winder (Trans.), The Meaning of Disaster,
by Constantine K. Zurayk (Beirut: Khayat's College Book
Cooperative, 1956, pp. 39-42.
21
Hourani, op. cit., p. 339.

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

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1971-02-07

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Basil R. Al-Kubaisi

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