The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 64)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 64)

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students ready and willing to participate in their political
activities. Most of these had been active participants in
the study groups of Dr. Constantine Zurayk, the distinguished
professor at the American University of Beirut. Dr. Zurayk,
a "consulting done to a whole generation of nationalists", +?
Started in 1947 to hold discussion circles for the university
Students. In these discussion circles, Dr. zurayk expounded
his ideas on nationalism and the Arab national movement.
The students who attended these circles got a better under-
Standing of the rise and development of the Arab national
movement. They became especially aware of the Zionist threat
to which Zurayk addressed himself in his classical work
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Ma'na al-Nakba, which appeared in the aftermath of the
Arab-Israeli War of 1948. Dr. Zurayk favored an almost
complete scrapping of traditional culture and the substitu-
tion of Western culture in its scientific aspects. He
called upon his students to work for the creation of a
unified Arab state. He also urged them to place their faith
in a dedicated elite to bring about the required transforma-
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tion in Arab society. As Dr. 4Zurayk confined himself to
42 6e Albert Hourani, Arabic Thought in the Liberal
Age, 1798-1939 (London: Oxford University Press, 1962),_
pe s
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See R. Bayly Winder (trans.), The Meaning of
Disaster, by Constantine K. Zurayk (Beirut Khayat's College
Book Cooperative, 1956).
440ne information on Zurayk's circles is based on
the author's personal interviews with a number of A.U.B.
graduates who insisted that their names should not be
revealed. .

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

تاريخ

1971-02-07

المنشئ

Basil R. Al-Kubaisi

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