The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 134)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 134)

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to shape up the national identity as something anti-West:
Eastern versus Western; Muslims. versus Christians; spiritual
people versus materialistic people ...- etc. On the other
hand, the ideas by which the intellectuals were expressing
these differences were exclusively Western ideas.+
The second characteristic feature was the need for a
historical continuity. An Arab boy in an elementary school
Was aware Of two "histories". The glorious history of the
Arab Empire a few centuries ago, and the history of the last
thirty or fifty years. The great gap between the ancient
past and the present remained unabridged. It was only natural
that the national consciousness would be disturbed because of
this gap. Living heavily on this consciousness were "great
Arabs" and "poor Arabs"; "good Arabs" and "bad Arabs".
Filling this gap required not only an understanding of the
roots and causes which led to the decline of the Arab Empire,
but also an appreciation of the basis of western power and
an analytical stand regarding the different schools of thought
which emerged in the West.
The third characteristic feature was determined by
Arab mentality which was basically a religious one. The
mechanism of that mentality was not yet trained in the liberal
1 See Mary Matossian, “Ideology of Delayed Industrializa-
tion", in John H. Kantsky (ed.)' Political Change in Underdeveloped
'Countires (New York: John Wiley, 1966), p. 254.

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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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