Islam Against the West: Shakib Arslan and the Campaign for Islamic Nationalism by University of Texas Press, 2011;• "A History of the Modern Middle East" Westview Press, 2013 pg 131 | Muslime im Zwischenkriegseuropa und die Dekonstruktion der Faszination vom Westen |
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External links [ ] Arabic has original text related to this article: | Cleveland, Islam Against the West: Shakib Arslan and the Campaign for Islamic Nationalism, University of Texas Press 2011 , p |
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.
9" Influenced by the ideas of and , Arslan became a strong supporter of the policies of | Personal life [ ] He married Suleima Alkhas Hatog, a Jordanian of Circassian descent, who bore him one son, Ghalib 1917 in Lebanon, and two daughters, May 1928 and Nazima 1930 in Switzerland |
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Thomas Molnar, Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival, Routledge 2017 , p | Arslan died on 9 December 1946, three months after he came back to Lebanon |
Exiled from his homeland by the authorities, Arslan passed most of the interwar years in serving as the unofficial representative of and at the and writing a constant stream of articles for the periodical press of the countries.
28A prolific author, he penned some 20 books and 2000 articles, to which can be added two collections of poetry and a "prodigious correspondence | He defended Islam as an essential component of social |
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Advocacy [ ] Amir Shakib advocated a version of that was charged with political and moral assertiveness | To Arslan, and were closely bound together and the reform of Islam would naturally lead to the revival of the Ottoman Empire |
Cleveland, Islam Against the West: Shakib Arslan and the Campaign for Islamic Nationalism, University of Texas Press 2011 , p.
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