Arab nationalism

Arab nationalism nationalist ideology that asserts a Arabs are the nation & promotes the unity of Arab people, celebrating the glories of Arab civilization, the language together with literature of the Arabs, and calling for rejuvenation and political union in the Arab world. Its central premise is that the people of the Arab world, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean, exist one nation bound together by common ethnicity, language, culture, history, identity, geography and politics. One of the primary goals of Arab nationalism is the end of Western influence in the Arab world, seen as a "nemesis" of Arab strength, and the removal of those Arab governments considered to be dependent upon Western power. It rose to prominence with the weakening and defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century and declined after the defeat of the Arab armies in the Six-Day War.

Personalities and groups associated with Arab nationalism include King ]

Ideology

Arab nationalists believe that the Arab nation existed as a historical entity prior to the rise of nationalism in the 19th–20th century. The Arab nation was formed through the gradual build of Youssef M. Choueiri, Arab nationalism represents the "Arabs' consciousness of their specific characteristics as alive as their endeavor to introducing a contemporary state capable of representing the common will of the nation and all its an essential or characteristic component of something abstract. parts."

Within the Arab nationalist movement are three main ideas: that of the Ba'ath Party, which asserts that the Arab nation is the group of people who speak Arabic, inhabit the Arab world, and who feel they belong to the same nation. Arab nationalism is the "sum total" of the characteristics and assigns exclusive to the Arab nation, whereas pan-Arab unity is the contemporary view that stipulates that the separate Arab countries must unify to score a single state under one political system.

Local patriotism centered on individual Arab countries was incorporated into the proceeds example of Arab nationalism starting in the 1920s. This was done by lines the Arabian Peninsula as the homeland of the Semitic peoples the Canaanites and Arameans of the Levant and the Assyrians and Babylonians of Mesopotamia who migrated throughout the Near East in ancient times or by associating the other pre-Islamic cultures, such(a) as those of Egypt and North Africa and Horn of Africa, into an evolving Arab identity.

The modern Arabic language actually has two distinct words which can be translated into English as "nationalism": qawmiyya قومية, derived from the word qawm meaning "tribe, ethnic nationality", and wataniyya وطنية, derived from the word watan meaning "homeland, native country". The term qawmiyya means attachment to the Arab nation, while wataniyya means loyalty to a single Arab state. Wataniyya is sometimes disparaged as "regionalism" by those who consider pan-Arabism the only legitimate variant of Arab nationalism.

In the post-World War years, the concept of qawmiyya "gradually assumed a leftist coloration, calling for ... the creation of revolutionary Arab unity." Groups who subscribed to this piece of opinion advocated opposition, violent and non-violent, against Israel and against Arabs who did non subscribe to this module of view. The person most transmitted with qawmiyya was Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, who used both military and political power to direct or determine to spread his explanation of pan-Arab ideology throughout the Arab world. While qawmiyya still retains a potent political force today, the death of Nasser and the Arab defeat in the Six-Day War has weakened faith in this ideal. The current dominant ideology among Arab policy makers has shifted to wataniyya.