| ID | 094823 |
| Title Proper | Other frontiers of Arab nationalism |
| Other Title Information | Ibadis, Berbers, and the Arabist - Salafi press in the interwar period |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Ghazal, Amal N |
| Publication | 2010. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The historiography of Arab nationalism has tended to concentrate on the secular press from the Mashriq, especially the Cairo-Beirut axis, at the expense of the religious nationalist press and the non-Mashriqi one. There is often an assumption that reliance on the secular press from the Mashriq alone can provide a clear picture of Arab intellectual life and that a proper analysis of that thought can be confined to a few intellectual centers in the eastern Arab world. Although there has never been an explicit claim that such a focus is the end of the story, there have not been enough attempts to look beyond the Cairo-Beirut axis and beyond its secular press organs in search of a broader story of the depth and breadth of Arab nationalism. This article addresses this imbalance by examining an Arabist-Salafi press network that operated between Algeria, Tunisia, Zanzibar, and Egypt and involved members of two sectarian communities, Sunnis and Ibadis. This Arabist-Salafi press network created a public sphere of intellectual engagement in which Salafism and nationalism were interwoven, producing a nationalist discourse transgressing post World War I borders of identity and linking the three layers of nationalism-the territorial, the Pan-Arab, and the Pan-Islamic-together. These layers not only intersected but also legitimized one another. |
| `In' analytical Note | International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol. 42, No. 1; Feb 2010: p105-122 |
| Journal Source | International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol. 42, No. 1; Feb 2010: p105-122 |
| Key Words | Arab Nationalism ; Secular Press ; Nationalist Press ; Arab ; Egypt ; Salafism ; Nationalism ; Pan-Arab |