Britain and Arab Unity A Documentary History from the Treaty of Versailles to the End of World War II

by Rizk, Younan Labib

• ISBN13: 9781848850590
• ISBN10: 184885059X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-15
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris

Summary

British attitudes towards Arab unity have frequently been a source of controversy. Younan Labib Rizk here provides a coherent Arab perspective derived from considerable in-depth research into British archives, covering the period 1919 to 1945. His analysis reveals how British government policy was formed in this period and concludes that repeated British administrations were consistent in their concern and hostility towards the notion of Arab unity. While this conforms with traditional Arab views of British policy in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula, the importance of Rizk's work lies in his meticulous research through which he is able to document British attitudes and motivations. As he quotes the internal correspondence between departments and individual officials in the Foreign Office and its Eastern Department, the Colonial Office and several British Cabinets, Rizk shows that divisions within the Arab world -- of which there were plenty -- were nurtured by British officials, only eventually to acquire their own dynamic. This book enhances our understanding of how the international politics of the region evolved during a critical phase in the modern history of the Middle East.

Author Biography

Younan Labib Rizk was Professor of History at Ain Shams University in Cairo and Director of Historical Studies at the Institute of Research and Arab Studies. He was also a respected commentator on the contemporary Arab world with a regular column in Al Ahram.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Britain's Divisive Role Prior to 1919	p. 1
Indianisation of the Gulf
The Isolation of Egypt
The Judaisation of Palestine
The Arab Kingdom 1919-23	p. 31
Arab Unity during World War I
The Arab Kingdom
The Arab Confederation
The Arab Conference 1931-3	p. 53
The Islamic Conference in Jerusalem
The Arab Conference in Baghdad
Between Arab Unity and Pan-Arabism 1936-41	p. 77
Plan-Islamism-Arabism
Pouring over the Concepts
The Impact of the War
British Policy towards Arab Unity during World War II 1941-3	p. 105
New Planning
Economic Cultural Unity
Convening the Arab Conference
Britain an the Establishment of the Arab League 1943-5	p. 137
The Preparatory Meeting
The Antoniadis Conference
Issuing the Charter
Conclusion	p. 163
Appendices	p. 165
References	p. 243
Index	p. 253
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