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| | He was a who was known as Amir al-Bayān (Arabic for "Prince of Eloquence") because in addition to being a politician, he was also an influential pan-Arabist, pan-Islamist writer, poet and historian an author, he penned some 20 books and 2000. | | He was a who was known as Amir al-Bayān (Arabic for "Prince of Eloquence") because in addition to being a politician, he was also an influential pan-Arabist, pan-Islamist writer, poet and historian an author, he penned some 20 books and 2000. |
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| − | One of the Druze families who converted to Islam, Arslan was one of the pillars of the all-Arab and all-Muslim movement in Syria.<ref>[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/hed/1949/04/01/01/page/11 Hed HaMizrah - הד המזרח, 1 April 1949, p. 11]. | + | One of the Druze families who converted to Islam, Arslan was one of the pillars of the all-Arab and all-Muslim movement in Syria.<ref name=hedhamizrah-1949>[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/hed/1949/04/01/01/page/11 Hed HaMizrah - הד המזרח, 1 April 1949, p. 11]. |
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| | Shakib Arslan, who sat in Geneva in those days and conducted his propaganda in favor of the Arabs, is the one who rained fire and brimstone on the Zionists and England. He claimed that neither the former nor the latter have rights over Palestine. The Druze forgot the peace treaty, made between the tribesmen of his tribe and the Jews of Metula, in his position and influence. And it wasn't in that alliance that the Israelis' rights in their homeland were already recognized...</font> | | Shakib Arslan, who sat in Geneva in those days and conducted his propaganda in favor of the Arabs, is the one who rained fire and brimstone on the Zionists and England. He claimed that neither the former nor the latter have rights over Palestine. The Druze forgot the peace treaty, made between the tribesmen of his tribe and the Jews of Metula, in his position and influence. And it wasn't in that alliance that the Israelis' rights in their homeland were already recognized...</font> |
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| − | Explains a writer who met him:<blockquote> | + | Explains a writer<ref name=hedhamizrah-1949/> who met him:<blockquote> |
| | He excited the believers to envy the zeal of Islam and provoked the anger of the Christians. In his many articles and speeches, the emir proved that the Arabs are loyal to the Turkish caliph dynasty and honor them over the Umms, the Abbasids and the Fatimids. At the head of a Druze battalion, the Emir marched to Egypt at the beginning of the First War to conquer the Suez and return the Nile Valley to the Sultan of Kushta. | | He excited the believers to envy the zeal of Islam and provoked the anger of the Christians. In his many articles and speeches, the emir proved that the Arabs are loyal to the Turkish caliph dynasty and honor them over the Umms, the Abbasids and the Fatimids. At the head of a Druze battalion, the Emir marched to Egypt at the beginning of the First War to conquer the Suez and return the Nile Valley to the Sultan of Kushta. |
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