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Foreword This monographic issue of Oriente Moderno deals with Arab nationalism(s) in the Twentieth century. Nationalism has been a dream, but also a striking failure of the contemporary Arab world. It arose hopes of progress, unity and development, but produced disruption and backwardness. It is perhaps globally difficult to grasp the dynamics leading to this bouléversement. The essays collected in the present issue will try to explain some of these dynamics.I should like here to stress only a number of general interpretative points.1. In the Twentieth century’s Arab history, nationalism broke rather than united state structures and international organizations. At the end of the Nineteenth century, many centripetal trends were alive or in train to be constituted. Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid ii (r. 1876-1909) was spurring a pan-Islamic feeling in order to unite the heterogeneous peoples of the Empire. In the very Empire’s heart, pan-Ottomanism and pan-Turkism were two divergent paths with the same objective: strengthening and expanding the centralist Ottoman-Turkish state. In the Arab lands, pan-Arab consciousness was growing and the pan-Arab movement will soon be born in the same Ottoman territories.After the first world war and later after the second, a great number of Arab nations were born out http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Oriente Moderno Brill

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Campanini, Massimo
Oriente Moderno , Volume 97 (1): 3 – Mar 30, 2017
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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This monographic issue of Oriente Moderno deals with Arab nationalism(s) in the Twentieth century. Nationalism has been a dream, but also a striking failure of the contemporary Arab world. It arose hopes of progress, unity and development, but produced disruption and backwardness. It is perhaps globally difficult to grasp the dynamics leading to this bouléversement. The essays collected in the present issue will try to explain some of these dynamics.I should like here to stress only a number of general interpretative points.1. In the Twentieth century’s Arab history, nationalism broke rather than united state structures and international organizations. At the end of the Nineteenth century, many centripetal trends were alive or in train to be constituted. Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid ii (r. 1876-1909) was spurring a pan-Islamic feeling in order to unite the heterogeneous peoples of the Empire. In the very Empire’s heart, pan-Ottomanism and pan-Turkism were two divergent paths with the same objective: strengthening and expanding the centralist Ottoman-Turkish state. In the Arab lands, pan-Arab consciousness was growing and the pan-Arab movement will soon be born in the same Ottoman territories.After the first world war and later after the second, a great number of Arab nations were born out

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