Arab Nationalism A History Nation and State in the Arab World

by Choueiri, Youssef M.

• ISBN13: 9780631217299
• ISBN10: 0631217290
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-16
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Youssef Choueiri is Reader in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at Exeter University. He is the author of a number of books. His publications include State and Society in Syria and Lebanon, 1919-1990 (1994), and Islamic Fundamentalism (1997).

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	xi
Glossary	xii
Nationalism and its Theories	1	(22)
The World of Unbelief and Negative Approaches	3	(1)
Rousseau's Passion	4	(2)
Kant's Guilt	6	(2)
The World of Positive Belief	8	(2)
A Question of Dignity	10	(5)
The Agnostics or Reluctantly Neutral	15	(8)
Narrating the Nation	23	(33)
Lessons of History	25	(2)
The Rise of Islam	27	(2)
The Modern Age	29	(4)
Darwish al-Miqdadi: The Nation in History	33	(1)
Historical Structures	34	(4)
Lessons of History and Temporal Distances	38	(3)
An Egyptian Perspective	41	(7)
Islam and Arabism	48	(8)
Cultural and Political Arabism	56	(45)
The Ottoman Background and European Rivalry	59	(6)
Cultural Arabism	65	(5)
The Fatherland and Patriotism	70	(2)
The Cultural and the Political	72	(10)
Political Arabism, 1900--1945	82	(1)
Articulation of Pan-Arabism	83	(9)
Political Parties	92	(9)
Educating the Nation: Sati` al-Husri	101	(24)
The Arab League	107	(4)
What is Nationalism?	111	(14)
In Search of Theory	125	(41)
Regionalism	139	(2)
An Arab Polity	141	(2)
Al-Arsuzi: Language and Industry	143	(5)
Shahbandar: Leadership and Revolution	148	(6)
Michel `Aflaq: The Vanguard	154	(3)
Socialism	157	(2)
Nationalism	159	(3)
Religion	162	(2)
New Politics	164	(2)
Socialism and Pan-Arabism	166	(41)
The World of Social Arab Nationalism	167	(12)
Nasserism	179	(9)
Political Orientations	188	(3)
Theory and Practice	191	(3)
The Universal and the Specific	194	(3)
Ba`thism	197	(10)
Epilogue: Civil Society and Democracy	207	(12)
Neo-Arabism	213	(6)
Notes	219	(17)
List of Dynasties	236	(1)
Further Reading	237	(3)
Bibliography	240	(6)
Index	246