Arab Nationalism: A History: Nation and State in t he Arab World

Preface.
<p>Acknowledgements.</p>
<p>Glossary.</p>
<p>1. Nationalism and Its Theories.</p>
<p>The World of Unbelief and Negative Approaches.</p>
<p>Rousseau′s Passion.</p>
<p>Kant′s Guilt.</p>
<p>The World of Positive Belief.</p>
<p>A Question of Dignity.</p>
<p>The Agnostics or Reluctantly Neutral.</p>
<p>2. Narrating the Nation.</p>
<p>Lessons of History.</p>
<p>The Rise of Islam.</p>
<p>The Modern Age.</p>
<p>Darwish al–Miqdadi: The Nation in History.</p>
<p>Historical Structures.</p>
<p>Lessons of History and Temporal Distances.</p>
<p>An Egyptian Perspective.</p>
<p>Islam and Arabism.</p>
<p>3. Cultural and Political Arabism.</p>
<p>The Ottoman Background and European Rivalry.</p>
<p>Cultural Arabism.</p>
<p>The Fatherland and Patriotism.</p>
<p>The Cultural and the Political.</p>
<p>Political Arabism 1900–1945.</p>
<p>Articulation of Pan–Arabism.</p>
<p>Political Parties.</p>
<p>4. Educating the Nation: Sati′ al–Husri.</p>
<p>The Arab League.</p>
<p>What is Nationalism?.</p>
<p>5. In Search of Theory.</p>
<p>Regionalism.</p>
<p>An Arab Polity.</p>
<p>Al–Arsuzi: Language and Industry.</p>
<p>Shahbandar: Leadership and Revolution.</p>
<p>Michel ′Aflaq: The Vanguard.</p>
<p>Socialism.</p>
<p>Nationalism.</p>
<p>Religion.</p>
<p>New Politics.</p>
<p>6. Socialism and Pan–Arabism.</p>
<p>The World of Social Arab Nationalism.</p>
<p>Nasserism.</p>
<p>Political Orientations.</p>
<p>Theory and Practice.</p>
<p>The Universal and the Specific.</p>
<p>Ba′thism.</p>
<p>7. Epilogue: Civil Society and Democracy.</p>
<p>Neo–Arabism.</p>
<p>Notes.</p>
<p>List of Dynasties.</p>
<p>Further Reading.</p>
<p>Bibliography.</p>
<p>Index.</p>