Arab fascism explained

Arab fascism (Arabic: الفاشية العربية) is a far-right ideology combining fascism with Arab nationalism.

History

The ideology emerged shortly after the First World War and grew during the interwar period. As the rise of Arab fascism was concurrent with the Arab independence from the Ottomans, Arab fascists were very Anti-Turkish.^[1] Arab fascism grew with support from Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, and Arab fascists became increasingly antisemitic after the establishment of Israel.^{[2] [3] [4] [5]} Arab fascism first grew in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine, and Egypt.^{[6] [7] [8]} Some Arab fascists included Islamism in their nationalism, and some were secular.^[9]

Michel Aflaq had purchased a copy of The Myth of the Twentieth Century, a book about Nazism.

In 1941, Arab fascists in Iraq committed the Farhud, an antisemitic pogrom.^{[10] [11] [12] [13]}

See also

• Al-Muthanna Club
• Free Arabian Legion
• Golden Square (Iraq)
• Islamofascism
• Mein Kampf in Arabic
• Muslim Association of the Lictor
• Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world
• Syrian Social Nationalist Party
• Ziaism

References

Bibliography

• Book: World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia. CITEREFBlamires2006. Blamires, Cyprian. ABC-CLIO. 2006. 1. 9781576079409.
• Book: Jankowski, James P. . Egypt's Young Rebels: "Young Egypt": 1933-1952 . Hoover Institution Press . 1975 . 9780817914516.
• Book: Jankowski . James . Redefining the Egyptian nation, 1930-1945 . Israel . Gershoni . Cambridge Middle East Studies . 1995 . 9780521475358.
• Wild . Stefan . 1 Jan 1985 . National Socialism in the Arab Near East Between 1933 and 1939 . Die Welt des Islams . 25 . 1–4 . 126–173 . 10.1163/157006085X00053 . 1571079 . JSTOR.

Notes and References

1. International Journal of Middle East Studies 42 (2010), 311-32
2. Achim Rohde: State-Society Relations in Ba'thist Iraq: Facing Dictatorship, London / New York 2010.
3. Islamstudien ohne Ende, ed. Rainer Brunner et al. (= Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 54,1), Würzburg 2002, 517-528.
4. Gershoni / James P. Jankowski: Confronting Fascism in Egypt: Dictatorship Versus Democracy in the 1930s, Stanford 2010;
5. Peter Wien: Iraqi Arab Nationalism: Authoritarian, Totalitarian and Pro-Fascist Inclinations, 1932-1941, London / New York 2006.
6. https://books.google.com/books?id=2PbLcYdLUgsC&pg=PA80 Rabinovich, The war for Lebanon (1989), p. 80
7. 21 April 1941 . Near East: Trouble in Paradise . Time.
8. René Wildangel: Zwischen Achse und Mandatsmacht: Palästina und der Nationalsozialismus, ed. by Zentrum Moderner Orient (= ZMO- Studien 24), Berlin 2007.
9. Hourani, p. 326
10. Book: Bashkin, Orit . The Other Iraq: Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq . 2008-11-20 . Stanford University Press . 9780804774154 . en.
11. Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East & North Africa: D-K Por Philip Mattar, p. 860
12. Memories of state: politics, history, and collective identity in modern Iraq by Eric Davis Eric Davis, University of California Press, 2005, P. 14
13. Davis . Eric . April 2005 . History Matters: Past as Prologue in Building Democracy in Iraq . Orbis . en . 49 . 2 . 232 . 10.1016/j.orbis.2005.01.004.