This is a much needed, concise survey of Arab nationalism both as an historical movement and a doctrine. The author identifies the particular characteristics and development of Arab nationalism and provides a wide-ranging history.Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Glossary.
1. Nationalism and Its Theories.
The World of Unbelief and Negative Approaches.
Rousseau's Passion.
Kant's Guilt.
The World of Positive Belief.
A Question of Dignity.
The Agnostics or Reluctantly Neutral.
2. Narrating the Nation.
Lessons of History.
The Rise of Islam.
The Modern Age.
Darwish al-Miqdadi: The Nation in History.
Historical Structures.
Lessons of History and Temporal Distances.
An Egyptian Perspective.
Islam and Arabism.
3. Cultural and Political Arabism.
The Ottoman Background and European Rivalry.
Cultural Arabism.
The Fatherland and Patriotism.
The Cultural and the Political.
Political Arabism 1900-1945.
Articulation of Pan-Arabism.
Political Parties.
4. Educating the Nation: Sati' al-Husri.
The Arab League.
What is Nationalism?.
5. In Search of Theory.
Regionalism.
An Arab Polity.
Al-Arsuzi: Language and Industry.
Shahbandar: Leadership and Revolution.
Michel 'Aflaq: The Vanguard.
Socialism.
Nationalism.
Religion.
New Politics.
6. Socialism and Pan-Aral3$
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