Sati Al Housri
Sati al-Housri ( Arabic : , born in Sana'a in August 1880 , died in Baghdad in 1967 ) was a teacher, a writer and an intellectual Syrian who has played a fundamental role in the development of Arab nationalism. His writings and ideas have greatly influenced the Arab nationalists, and bass players in particular.
Biography
Sati al-Housri was born in Sana'a in Yemen, a Syrian Sunni family " Faisal died in 1933 and was replaced by King Ghazi I, which is being acquired for Arab nationalist ideas. After his assassination by a man close to the United Kingdom it is replaced. In 1941 , military officers influenced by the ideas of Housri make a military coup against the pro-British monarchy, and they set up a government briefly near the Germany. When the British regained control of the country, Housri is forced to leave Iraq and fled to Beirut. In Syria, Housri is responsible for reforming the education system. In 1943 the newly elected president, Shukri al-Kuwatli prompted Damascus to develop a new curriculum for Arab nationalist school. In 1947 he moved to Cairo where he is responsible for the cultural department of the Arab League , he worked on the unification of the national education system. He held this position for nearly 18 years. He returned to Iraq following the military coup of the Baath party in 1965. He died in 1967. The Baath has organized a grand funeral, it was under his influence that the Nationalist include North Africa to the Arab nation. This idea was embodied by a Baathist slogan quite popular, min al halij ila al Muhit (Gulf to the ocean (Atlantic). This motto has been used in several Arab patriotic songs. Arab nationalism has its first major theorist Sati al-through Housri, beyond mere sentimental claims to lay a solid intellectual foundation. For him nationalism is a modern phenomenon of global reach, which is beneficial for the Arab world. It regularly complains of regionalism that exists in some Arab countries. He distinguishes what he calls the Homeland particular (watan al Khass) of the general homeland (watan al amm). It emphasizes the cultural and linguistic "Arabic Is the one who speaks Arabic, which means that Arab and Arab said." He opts for a full Arab nationalism based language, secular and not religious. He advocates a separate Arab nationality, without religious or community qualification. He says "I profess my whole heart, the religion of Arabism. " Housri inspired by the nationalism of the German idealists - as Fichte - the nineteenth century that best suits him according to the Arab situation. For him, "Patriotism is local and pan-Arab nationalism above all else and foremost, even before freedom and above it. "This slogan has also been taken over by the Baath party. The Palestinian historian, Maher Sharif says he has a cultural approach and sentimental nationalism. He sees the nation as a living entity, and has long stressed its historical existence even if the people were not aware or did not belong to this nation. He said in Cairo in 1950 , Housri was then struggled for the Egyptian people to fully adopt the Arab nationalism, since 1940 , he saw Cairo as "the natural leader of the Arab homeland. "Because he wanted Egypt" realizes Arab unity, as Prussia did in Germany and Piedmont for Italian unity. " The definition proposed Housri nation moves closer to the European concept, it categorically excludes the religious criterion. It never fails to remind the Arab identity must take into account the pre-Islamic period and all other inputs. He categorically opposed to pan-Islamism that he regarded as a denial of Arab nationalism and a pure figment of the imagination that ignores him as differences between the various Muslim peoples (language, culture, history, ethnicity). Furthermore he campaigned for the separation of religion and state. Ideology
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