Preface.
Acknowledgements.

Glossary.

1. Nationalism and Its Theories.

The World of Unbelief and Negative Approaches.

Rousseau s Passion.

Kant s Guilt.

The World of Positive Belief.

A Question of Dignity.

The Agnostics or Reluctantly Neutral.

2. Narrating the Nation.

Lessons of History.

The Rise of Islam.

The Modern Age.

Darwish al-Miqdadi: The Nation in History.

Historical Structures.

Lessons of History and Temporal Distances.

An Egyptian Perspective.

Islam and Arabism.

3. Cultural and Political Arabism.

The Ottoman Background and European Rivalry.

Cultural Arabism.

The Fatherland and Patriotism.

The Cultural and the Political.

Political Arabism 1900-1945.

Articulation of Pan-Arabism.

Political Parties.

4. Educating the Nation: Sati al-Husri.

The Arab League.

What is Nationalism?.

5. In Search of Theory.

Regionalism.

An Arab Polity.

Al-Arsuzi: Language and Industry.

Shahbandar: Leadership and Revolution.

Michel Aflaq: The Vanguard.

Socialism.

Nationalism.

Religion.

New Politics.

6. Socialism and Pan-Arabism.

The World of Social Arab Nationalism.

Nasserism.

Political Orientations.

Theory and Practice.

The Universal and the Specific.

Ba thism.

7. Epilogue: Civil Society and Democracy.

Neo-Arabism.

Notes.

List of Dynasties.

Further Reading.

Bibliography.

Index.