The Genesis of the Modern Middle East

Miller

Argues that in the Great Syrian Revolt, “None of these groups were innate revolutionaries: all they wanted was a government capable of maintaining stable conditions”

Tell

“Abdullah became marooned in Amman by the imperial division of Greater Syria, and faced with a tiny heterogenous population that owed no allegiance to the Hashemites”

Vinogradov

Ottoman control only extended to three Iraqi cities – Baghdad, Mosul and Basra

Bell

Faysal was “lacking in strength and character”

Sluggard

In Syria and Iraq, there was the “absence of stability and effective institutions of civil society”

Peter Hill

The Nahda was “the founding moment of Arab modernity and Arab nationalism”

Yann

The Eastern Question is the product of Ottoman revival, not Ottoman weakness

Percy Cox

In the Iraq invasion, “The British were liberators, not conquerors!”

Tahtawi

“If Egypt took care and the tools of civilization were applied copiously there (Europe), then it would be the sultan of cities and the chief country of the world”

Europeans “have not been guided to the straight path, and they have not followed the course of salvation at all”

Rashid Rida

“To be filled with the passion for the history of the Arabs, to strive to revive their glory, is the same as working for Islamic union”

Nasser

“The goal of the government of the Revolution is that the Arabs become a united nation, its son co-operating for the common good”

“All peoples wish to live free, independent, and equal. This is not a religious question, but a political one…For the Muslim is a human being before he is a Muslim”