Cleveland, Islam Against the West: Shakib Arslan and the Campaign for Islamic Nationalism, University of Texas Press 2011 , p | He also advocated the proposition that the survival of the was the only guarantee against the division of the and its occupation by the European imperial powers |
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His daughter, May, married politician and he is the grandfather through her of Lebanese politician | He defended Islam as an essential component of social |
Our Decline: Its Causes and Remedies English translation published by in 2004; Further reading [ ]• External links [ ] Arabic has original text related to this article:.
2Muslime im Zwischenkriegseuropa und die Dekonstruktion der Faszination vom Westen | Thomas Molnar, Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival, Routledge 2017 , p |
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Arslan died on 9 December 1946, three months after he came back to Lebanon | 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 |
Arslan's work inspired propaganda campaigns, much to the irritation of British and French authorities in the.
Thomas Molnar, Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival, Routledge 2017 , p | Islam Against the West: Shakib Arslan and the Campaign for Islamic Nationalism by University of Texas Press, 2011;• 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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"A History of the Modern Middle East" Westview Press, 2013 pg 131 | It was during this time that he wrote his most famous work, , which described what Arslan believed to be the reasons for the weakness of existing Muslim governments |
Cleveland, Islam Against the West: Shakib Arslan and the Campaign for Islamic Nationalism, University of Texas Press 2011 , p.
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