Cleveland, Islam Against the West: Shakib Arslan and the Campaign for Islamic Nationalism, University of Texas Press 2011 , p | Arslan's work inspired propaganda campaigns, much to the irritation of British and French authorities in the |
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Muslime im Zwischenkriegseuropa und die Dekonstruktion der Faszination vom Westen | Advocacy [ ] Amir Shakib advocated a version of that was charged with political and moral assertiveness |
"A History of the Modern Middle East" Westview Press, 2013 pg 131.
6He also advocated the proposition that the survival of the was the only guarantee against the division of the and its occupation by the European imperial powers | " Influenced by the ideas of and , Arslan became a strong supporter of the policies of |
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He sought to reconstruct the bonds of Islamic solidarity by reminding Muslims from to that despite their diversity, they were united by virtue of their common adherence to Islam; if they would but recognize this bond and act on it, he believed they would achieve liberation from their current oppression and the restoration of what he saw as their splendid past | His daughter, May, married politician and he is the grandfather through her of Lebanese politician |
Cleveland, Islam Against the West: Shakib Arslan and the Campaign for Islamic Nationalism, University of Texas Press 2011 , p.
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Thomas Molnar, Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival, Routledge 2017 , p | Islam Against the West: Shakib Arslan and the Campaign for Islamic Nationalism by University of Texas Press, 2011;• External links [ ] Arabic has original text related to this article: |
It was during this time that he wrote his most famous work, , which described what Arslan believed to be the reasons for the weakness of existing Muslim governments.