The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism

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University of Texas Press, 17‏/09‏/2009 - 209 من الصفحات

A historical study of the 1925 revolt against French rule in Syria, and how it established a new popular nationalism that helped shape the Middle East.

The Great Syrian Revolt of 1925 was the first mass movement against colonial rule in the Middle East. Mobilizing peasants, workers, and army veterans, it was also the region’s largest and longest-lasting anti-colonial insurgency during the inter-war period. Though the revolt failed to liberate Syria from French occupation, it provided a model of popular nationalism and resistance that remains potent in the Middle East today. Each subsequent Arab uprising against foreign rule has repeated the language and tactics of the Great Syrian Revolt.

In this work, Michael Provence uses newly released secret colonial intelligence sources, neglected memoirs, and popular memory to tell the story of the revolt from the perspective of its participants. He shows how Ottoman-subsidized military education created a generation of leaders who rebelled against both the French Mandate rulers of Syria and the Syrian elite who helped the colonial regime. This new popular nationalism was unprecedented in the Arab world. Provence shows compellingly that the Great Syrian Revolt was a formative event in shaping the modern Middle East.

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Introduction
1
The Hawrân Frontier
27
Mobilizing the Mountain
48
Mobilizing the City
65
The Spread of Rebellion
87
The Politics of Rebellion
108
Epilogue and Conclusions
141
NOTES
155
BIBLIOGRAPHY
191
INDEX
205
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الصفحة 20 - If nationalisms in the rest of the world have to choose their imagined community from certain 'modular' forms already made available to them by Europe and the Americas, what do they have left to imagine? History, it would seem, has decreed that we in the postcolonial world shall only be perpetual consumers of modernity. Europe and the Americas...
الصفحة 155 - Linda Schatkowski Schilcher, Families in Politics: Damascene Factions and Estates of the 18th and 19th Centuries (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1985).
الصفحة 155 - Philip S. Khoury, Syria and the French Mandate: The Politics of Arab Nationalism, 1920-1945 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987).
الصفحة 83 - Syria, one and indivisible, both the coastal region and the interior, the establishment of a national government, and the free election of a Constituent Assembly to draft the constitution, the withdrawal of the foreign army of occupation, and the creation of a national army to guarantee security and apply the principles of the French Revolution and the rights of man.
الصفحة xii - Finally this book would not have been possible without the love and support of my family. My...
الصفحة 83 - Syria, one and indivisible, sea-coast and interior ; 2. The institution of a National Government and the free election of a Constituent Assembly for the framing of an Organic Law ; 3. The evacuation of the foreign army of occupation and the creation of a national army for the maintenance of security ; 4. The application of the principles of the French Revolution and the Rights of Man.
الصفحة 21 - There is no easily discernible natural hierarchy among one's facets of identity. And yet, when people who have only one or more facet in common face an enemy that is clearly an "Other" (such as a colonial military power), a new facet can emerge, or a preexisting facet may be pushed to the foreground, as a basis for collective action. When these two hypothetical insurgents join together to resist a colonial oppressor, for example, they do not hold identical conceptions of their national identity.
الصفحة 52 - His government conscripted mostly peasants, but shaykhs were sometimes required to work too, usually as punishment. They built paved roads and canals, among other projects. He explained that these projects would improve life for the inhabitants of the Jabal, but neither those he identified as oppressed peasants nor those he saw as feudal lords appreciated his efforts. Carbillet and his supporters in France attributed this opposition to the fact that the peasants were too backward to recognize their...

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MICHAEL PROVENCE is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.

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