The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 140)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 140)

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This was the background against which the Arab mind
was examining the different Western political ideas after
the first World War. It is understandable that liberalism
was most attractive to the well-to-do Arab intellectuals
who completed their higher education in Western institutions,
and whose main intellectual need was the search for an
identity. Thus, nationalism was introduced by the above
' intellectuals as an outcome of European liberalism. In
fact, it was looked upon as a national identity within which
modern ideas about society and technology could be assimilated.
Early nationalist writers advocated Arab nationalism as an
identity against the identity of being merely "natives".
Later they advocated an overall Arab identity against such
regional identities as Syrian, Egyptian or Lebanese. ’ They
did not elaborate on the question of ideology because they
were true to the liberal tradition. They hoped that the
Arab people, after freeing themselves from foreign dominance
and influence, will develop their political ideology by the
fairplay of the democratic system, and within the framework
of a unified Arab nation. They did not present a concrete
political theory, nor did they advance a political program
"see Sati’ al-Husry, Ara' wa-ahadith fi al-wataniyah
wa alqawmiyah [Views and Speeches on Patriotism and Nationalisn],
Cairo: Matba'at al-risalah, 1944), Muhadarat fi nushu' »
al-fikrah.al-gawmiyah [Lectures on the Origin’ of the National-
ist Idea], (Beirut: .Dar al-'ilm 1il malayin, 1956); and
Constantine Zurayk, Al-Wa'i al-Qawmi [National Consciousness],
(Beirut; 1936). -

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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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