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Arab fascism

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Arab fascism(Arabic:الفاشية العربية) is afar-rightideology combiningfascismwithArab nationalism.

History

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The ideology emerged shortly after theFirst World Warand grew during theinterwar period.As the rise of Arab fascism was concurrent with the Arab independence from the Ottomans, Arab fascists were veryAnti-Turkish.[1]Arab fascism grew with support fromNazi GermanyandFascist Italy,and Arab fascists became increasingly antisemitic after the establishment ofIsrael.[2][3][4][5]Arab fascism first grew in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine, and Egypt.[6][7][8][9]Some Arab fascists included Islamism in their nationalism, and some were secular.[10][11]

Michel Aflaqhad purchased a copy ofThe Myth of the Twentieth Century,a book aboutNazism.[12]

In 1941, Arab fascists in Iraq committed theFarhud,an antisemitic pogrom.[13][14][15][16]

References

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  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. ^Jankowski & Gershoni 1995,p. 69.
  7. ^Rabinovich,The war for Lebanon(1989), p. 80
  8. ^"Near East: Trouble in Paradise".Time.21 April 1941.
  9. ^René Wildangel: Zwischen Achse und Mandatsmacht: Palästina und der Nationalsozialismus, ed. by Zentrum Moderner Orient (= ZMO- Studien 24), Berlin 2007.
  10. ^Hourani, p. 326
  11. ^Jankowski 1975,p. 49.
  12. ^Wild 1985,p. 131.
  13. ^Bashkin, Orit (20 November 2008).The Other Iraq: Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq.Stanford University Press.ISBN9780804774154.
  14. ^Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East & North Africa: D-K Por Philip Mattar, p. 860
  15. ^Memories of state: politics, history, and collective identity in modern Iraq by Eric Davis Eric Davis, University of California Press, 2005, P. 14
  16. ^Davis, Eric (April 2005)."History Matters: Past as Prologue in Building Democracy in Iraq".Orbis.49(2): 232.doi:10.1016/j.orbis.2005.01.004.

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