| − | '''Shakib Arslan''' (Arabic: شكيب أرسلان,Turkish: Şekîb b. Hammûd b. Hasen el-Arslânî, 25 December 1869 – 9 December 1946) (Abou Ghaleb) was a forner [[Druze|Druse]] notable, prince (amir) in [[Lebanon]], who left his community and clung to [[fascism]],<ref name=book-assaf-1967p129/> allied,<ref>Elst, Koenraad. Indigenous Indians: Agastya to Ambedkar. India: Voice of India, 1993. [http://books.google.com/books?id=exVuAAAAMAAJ&q=arslan p. 353].<blockquote>Young Fidel Castro would imitate Mussolini in front of the mirror. The secularist Baath Party in Syria and Iraq was modelled on Mussolini's Fascist Party. The Iranian Shah Reza Pahlevi was an open admirer of Hitler (for which he was forced by the British to abdicate in favour of his son)... The Muslims in particular were enthusiastic... Muslim nations rallied to ally with Hitler: the Bosnian Muslims, the Kalmuks, the Chechen and Ingosh, the Balkans, the Meshkets, and the Krim Tatars. In West Asia, prominant leaders like the Druze leader Shakib Arslan (Walid Jumblatt's father) and the Mufti of Jerusalem allied themselves with Hitler.</blockquote></ref> propagated for [[Hitler]], tight with the Mufti [[Mohammed Amin Al-Husseini]], [[Jamal Husseini]] and other ieaders in Arab Mandatory Palestine. | + | '''Shakib Arslan''' (Arabic: شكيب أرسلان,Turkish: Şekîb b. Hammûd b. Hasen el-Arslânî, 25 December 1869 – 9 December 1946) (Abou Ghaleb) was a former [[Druze|Druse]] notable, prince (amir) in [[Lebanon]], who left his community and clung to [[fascism]],<ref name=book-assaf-1967p129/> allied,<ref>Elst, Koenraad. Indigenous Indians: Agastya to Ambedkar. India: Voice of India, 1993. [http://books.google.com/books?id=exVuAAAAMAAJ&q=arslan p. 353].<blockquote>Young Fidel Castro would imitate Mussolini in front of the mirror. The secularist Baath Party in Syria and Iraq was modelled on Mussolini's Fascist Party. The Iranian Shah Reza Pahlevi was an open admirer of Hitler (for which he was forced by the British to abdicate in favour of his son)... The Muslims in particular were enthusiastic... Muslim nations rallied to ally with Hitler: the Bosnian Muslims, the Kalmuks, the Chechen and Ingosh, the Balkans, the Meshkets, and the Krim Tatars. In West Asia, prominant leaders like the Druze leader Shakib Arslan (Walid Jumblatt's father) and the Mufti of Jerusalem allied themselves with Hitler.</blockquote></ref> propagated for [[Hitler]], tight with the Mufti [[Mohammed Amin Al-Husseini]], [[Jamal Husseini]] and other ieaders in Arab Mandatory Palestine. |
| | 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 2,000 articles. | | 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 2,000 articles. |