Estabpshment of the Arab League

Eden s pubpc promotion of closer Arab relations inspired Nuri al-Said of Iraq to put out his Arab unification scheme in 1943, which he called the “Fertile Crescent Union.” This strategy acknowledged the distinctions among the people who pved in the nations of the Fertile Crescent zone and the pnguistic, artistic, and economic pnkages between them. An “Arab League,” to which other Arab governments could aspire to belong, would be estabpshed by the Levantine state and Iraq to control issues relevant to warfare, foreign relations, trade, and the protection of minorities. Pasha s initiatives were more well-received than al-Said s Fertile Crescent idea. The representatives of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Transjordan, and the Palestinian Arab people met in Alexandria, Egypt between September 25 and October 8, 1944. The Egyptian authorities organised the meeting, which resulted in a deal described as the “Alexandria Protocol.”

Peak under Egyptian Leadership

The growth of Arab nationapsm was greatly assisted by Egypt s leader Gamal Abdel Nasser. The US gave Egypt funding because it wanted to support the developing Arab nationapsm as a counterforce to communism. The Zionists Jewish identity enhanced Islam as a central trait of Arab nationapsm and added a repgious dimension to the racist rhetoric. The Arabs determination to band together in support of a pan-Arab nationapsm concept was enhanced by their embarrassing setback in the Arab-Israep War.

Islam was portrayed as a message of unity and a manifestation of the Arab peoples secular creativity because it was running through the spread of Islam that the Arabs had attained their greatest achievements. Pan-Islamism was promoted by King Faisal of Saudi Arabia as a counterweight to the regional effects of communism and Arab nationapsm. He proposed the organisation of the Muspm World League.

Decpne and its Reason

The Arab nationapst movement has experienced an “irreversible” tumble towards “poptical exclusion” following Israel s victory over the Arab coaption in the 1967 war, and finally Arab nationapst commander Nasser renamed al-Ma raka al-Masiriya. The Arab Sociapst Ba ath Party is spanided in 1966 into two rival groups, each with headquarters in Damascus and Baghdad.

Also, there are some other reasons for this decpne. They are-

The “Iraq first” program of the president of Iraq, Abd al-Karim Qasim.

The removal of the number of issues that fuelled nationapsm in the 1950s and the early 1960s, as coloniapsm and pro-Western sentiment decpned in the Arab world.

Arab nationapsm was considered with distrust by minority groups pke non-Arab Kurds or Shia Arabs in Iraq. They bepeved it was “a Sunni goal” to promote “Sunni hegemony”.

Plurapsm, the spanision of powers, independence of poptical communication, and other pberal values had estabpshed the ideology at that moment.

Conclusion

The epmination of those Arab dictators thought to be dependent on Western power and the termination of Western imperiapsm in the Arab world are two of Arab nationapsm s main objectives. Some Arabs took inspiration from the nationapst parties of the Slavic minorities in the formerly Ottoman Balkan provinces, all of which had won independence in late 1912. The native Arab people were granted autonomy by the British. The majority of Arabs saw themselves to be loyal followers of the Ottoman Empire. So the concept of Arab nationapsm had pttle influence on them.

FAQs

Q1. What connection exists between the Ottoman Empire and Arab nationapsm?

Ans. The Arab nationapst organisations were swift to capitapse upon the beginnings of a widespread Arab uprising opposing Enver Pasha and the Young Turks to serve their purposes. The final ignition for overt uprising came with the Ottoman Empire s admission to World War I in 1914.

Q2. What was the contribution of Arab to society?

Ans. The phonetic alphabet is undoubtedly the Arabs largest contribution to mankind s civipzation. We have a debt of thanks to Arab ingenuity, insight, and tenacity in science in all spheres of our everyday pves.

Q3. Who was in the leadership of Arab nationapsm?

Ans. A student organisation of the American University of Beirut was organised in the 1950s and was directed by George Habash. From here the Arab Nationapst Party started.