Arab Nationalism
A Critical Enquiry
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Ideology is one of the most loosely-used concepts in the social sciences today. Its imprecise usage merely serves to confirm the prejudice nourished in certain academic circles that social science is an elegan...
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Two cases ofSalmonella colitis are described. Clinical and radiological differentiation from ulcerative colitis is difficult and necessitates repeated stool cultures. The management ofSalmonella colitis is review...
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According to Pollard, ancient history is essentially that of the city state, and medieval history that of the universal world state. He sees modern history as the history of national states whose most ‘promine...
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The indigenous social structures of ‘Third World’ countries, devastated by colonialism, are now experiencing a comprehensive process of transformation triggered off from outside.1 However the disintegration of th...
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The Egyptian variety of local nationalism provoked al-Husri’s criticism on two grounds. In the first place, its regional limitation contradicted his own Pan-Arab views, and in the second place, it derived from...
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It has already been shown that Arab nationalism first emerged in Greater Syria, and that it was confined to that part of the Middle East in its early years. It originated among Syro-Lebanese intellectuals, who...
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The significance of Sati ‘al-Husri’s work lies first of all in the fact that it faithfully reflects an important phase in modern Arab history and the political thought which accompanied it, and secondly in tha...
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Genes are ultimately responsible for all physiological, developmental and morphological characteristics of plants. About 30 per cent of the plant genome contributes more or less in growth and development of ro...
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In the early nineteenth century the social structure of Greater Syria, the birthplace of Arab nationalism, was similar to that of Egypt before the reforms of Muhammad ‘Ali. The system of tax-farming known as ilti...
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Even in his earliest writings, al-Husri’s main philosophical interests are clear. He takes the Greek myth of Pandora’s box to illustrate the political situation which forms the starting point of his theory. Th...
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Kohn has come to the conclusion after years of research that while nationalism at the time of the French Revolution was an expression of aspirations towards individual liberty and democracy, it has developed i...
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Social change1 in the Middle East may be explained in terms of acculturation theory, to the extent that the archaic-chiliastic and secular-nationalist variants of the literary and political renaissance which took...
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By the end of the Second World War the process of decolonisation of the Arab countries had begun. This produced a number of independent national states which are, in Sulzbach’s terms, administrative nations.1 The...
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In the course of a long life (1882–1968) al-Husri was able to ensure that his ideas gained maximum publicity. He published frequently, and also managed to spread his theories in the course of his employment as...
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The growth and yield of plants is determined by their genetic potential and the availability of ecological growth factors (solar energy, water, nutrients, CO2 etc.). The realization of this potential is closely r...
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The growth and yield of plants is determined by their genetic potential and the availability of ecological growth factors (solar energy, water, nutrients, CO2 etc.). The realization of this potential is closely r...
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Endogenous Rhizobium plasmids (called Sym plasmids) are thought to encode genes which affect nodulation and host-specificity. Conjugation experiments with various Sym plasmids from R. leguminosarum, R. trifolii a...
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The fast-growing cowpea Rhizobium strain NGR234 is able to nodulate a wide range of tropical legumes as well as the non-legume Parasponia (1). Nodulation and structural nitrogenase genes are located on a large Sy...