Secular Arab Nationalism

Arab states from Egypt, turkey Iran and Israel are countries and states in Middle East
which are Arab nationalists in this context. The countries lie between Mediterranean Sea and
Indian Ocean, with Africa to the south and central Asia and Russia to the north has laid it to a
political destiny. Each unit has its own distinctive historical experience and each had tension
and difference between the folk and high literate culture. Islamic was the leading religion but
Jewish, Christian and other communities existed. The Arabs were divided to the Christian
Arabs, Islamic and secular Arabs who were against the adoption of the western mind in their
countries which affected them both positively and negatively.
Muhammad Kurd Ali an Arab nationalist felt that educational and learning
institutions were key promoters of Arab awakening, even after using the their language in
first year of school he felt it was weakening the feeling of the nation. He insisted that
education was the leading cause of western mind to the Arabs. The Arabs refused the idea of
adapting the Western culture which increased to the injury of their self-view, the Islamite on
the other hand were able to advance on their self-view by following the set believes that later
were known as Islamic revivalism and modernisation. Secular Arab nationalism creators were
against borrowing of western blemishes and injuring their self-view. Islam had bestowed
mankind rationality through creation of essentials modernity borrowed by the west, they
moved forward with the borrowings while the Muslims fell into abandoning and corrupting
their true Islam.
Many countries had interest in the nationalism and included; Germany, British,
French, European and United States of America. The cities were composed of majority of
illiterate people and they had resources of interest to other states with technology and high
literacy. These countries embarked on them and brought both advantageous and

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disadvantageous effect; the level of education was prompted through building of missionary
schools, industrialisation, political instability and stability in other nations. Through this, the
natives opened their mind and increased their self-view by adapting some of the ideologies
and rejecting others. Progressive a soviet sphere was formed by the Arab states against the
super powers during cold war where in 950 they put their faith in Arab nationalism.