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9781931541244

The Arab Awakening: The Story of the Arab National Movement

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    9781931541244

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    1931541248

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-11-01
  • Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

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Summary

First published in 1938, this fine book is the first study of the Arab national movement ever written.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
The Background
13(8)
The background.
Geographical setting.
Arabisation and Islamisation.
The Arab world defined.
The Turkish conquest.
A False Start
21(14)
Mehemed-`Ali in Egypt and the Wahhabi movement.
His conquest of Syria.
His plan for an Arab empire.
Ibrahim Pasha in Syria.
Palmerston's opposition.
National consciousness non-existent.
The plan fails.
The Start: 1847-68
35(26)
First missionaries in Syria.
Educational beginnings.
Egyptian system.
American activities.
Catholic activities.
Nasif Yazeji.
Butrus Bustani.
The first literary societies.
The earliest patriotic ode.
Historical retrospect.
The Hamidian Despotism: 1876-1908
61(18)
Deposition of `Abdul-`Aziz.
The Constitution of 1876.
The Sultan's Arab possessions.
Foundations of `Abdul-Hamid's rule.
His Islamic policy.
The Hejaz Railway.
The growth of German influence.
The Infant Movement: 1868-1908
79(22)
The Bairut secret society.
Its proclamations.
Its effect on the movement of ideas.
Its programme.
Its place in the history of the movement.
Repercussions.
The influence of Western education.
Moslem leadership.
`Abdul-Rahman al-Kawakebi.
Najib `Azuri.
Egyptian nationalism.
Young Arabs and Young Turks: 1908-14
101(25)
The Turco-Arab honeymoon.
The Turco-Arab estrangement.
Four Arab societies.
The Committee of Reform.
The First Arab Congress.
The trial of `Aziz `Ali.
The Sultan's Arab empire.
The War and the Holy War: 1914
126(23)
The Amir `Abdullah and Lord Kitchener.
Importance of their meeting.
Kitchener's overtures.
The threat of jihad.
The military outlook in the Arab world.
Position of the Grand Sharif.
The call to jihad.
Husain withholds his endorsement.
Active preaching of jihad.
The Prophet's standard.
The Plot: 1915
149(15)
Overtures from Damascus.
Ahmed Jemal Pasha.
Faisal and the secret societies.
The Damascus Protocol.
British policy and the Arab Rulers.
Great Britain's Pledge: 1915
164(20)
The Sharif Husain's first Note, July 14, 1915.
Sir Henry McMahon's first Note, August 30.
Husain's second Note, September 9.
McMahon's second Note, October 24.
Husain's third Note, November 5.
McMahon's third Note, December 13.
Husain's fourth Note, January 1, 1916.
McMahon's fourth Note, January 30.
Main provisions of the compact.
Territorial implications.
The case for publication.
A glimpse of Husain.
The Revolt: June 1916
184(17)
The rising timed for June 5, 1916.
Husain's final preparations.
Reign of terrorism in Syria.
The death-sentences.
Their effect on Faisal.
Husain driven to act.
The Revolt proclaimed in Madina.
The fall of Mecca.
Immediate Effects
201(15)
Repercussions in Syria.
Wider repercussions.
The Sharif's Proclamation.
Jemal Pasha's outburst.
The von Stotzingen Mission.
Mecca in danger of re-capture; organisation of the Arab forces.
Husain proclaimed King.
Occupation of Wajh.
Distribution of the Arab forces.
The Arabs in the War: 1916-18
216(27)
A campaign of raids.
Faisal wins over the tribes.
`Auda Abu Tayeh and the capture of `Aqaba.
The importance of `Aqaba as the new base.
British and German political activities.
Scope of the British propaganda.
Military significance of the Arab campaign.
The final offensive.
Capture of Damascus.
Occupation of Syria.
The sufferings endured by the population.
Pledges and Counter-Pledges
243(33)
Allied ambitions in the Ottoman Empire.
The Anglo-Franco-Russian (Sykes-Picot) Agreement.
Analysis of the Agreement.
Sir Mark Sykes and M. Georges-Picot in Jedda.
The Turkish peace-offer.
Mr. Balfour's message to King Husain.
Mr. Lloyd George's negotiations with the Zionists.
The Balfour Declaration.
Arab apprehensions.
The Declaration to the Seven.
The Anglo-French Declaration.
The Post-War Settlement
276(49)
Arab expectations.
Provisional administrative organisation.
Faisal's arrival in London; his negotiations with the Zionists.
Faisal at Versailles.
Proposal for an inquiry.
The General Syrian Congress.
The King-Crane Commission.
Faisal's second journey to Europe.
The San Remo Conference.
The French advance on Damascus.
Great Britain's breach of faith.
The Iraq rebellion.
The Cairo Conference.
T. E. Lawrence's contribution.
The Peninsula After the War
325(25)
Limits of foreign penetration.
The independent states in the Peninsula.
Anglo-Hejazi negotiations.
Wahhabi conquest of the Holy Land of Islam.
Problems created by Wahhabi rule in the Hejaz.
Ibn Sa`ud and his neighbours.
Foreign relations.
Internal administration.
Social and economic changes.
Iraq, Syria and Palestine after the War
350(63)
The Arab mandates.
Motives which governed their assignment.
The British mandate in Iraq.
The emancipation of Iraq.
Franco-Arab hostility.
The French mandate in Syria and the Lebanon.
The emancipation of Syria and the Lebanon.
Difficulties surrounding the study of the Palestine problem.
Arab and Jewish claims.
How the problem is obscured.
The Royal Commission.
Misconceptions.
Conditions of a solution.
Appendices 413(48)
Appendix A - The McMahon Correspondence.
Appendix B - The Anglo-Franco-Russian (Syke-Picot) Agreement.
Appendix C - Communication from the British Government to the King of the Hejaz (February 8, 1918).
Appendix D - The Declaration to the Seven.
Appendix E - Anglo-French Declaration (November 7, 1918).
Appendix F - The Faisal-Weizmann Agreement.
Appendix G - Resolutions of the General Syrian Congress.
Appendix H - Report of the King-Crane Commission.
Index 461

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