Greater Syria: The History of an AmbitionWhile for many years scholars and journalists have focused on the more obvious manifestations of political life in the Middle East, one major theme has been consistently neglected. This is Pan-Syrian nationalism--the dream of creating a Greater Syria out of an area now governed by Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and Turkey. Though not nearly as well known as Arab or Palestinian nationalism and hardly studied in depth, Pan-Syrianism has had a profound effect on Middle Eastern politics since the end of World War I. In Greater Syria, the noted Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes provides the first comprehensive account of this intriguing, important, and little understood ideology. |
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictPipes, director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, sets out the historical background of the creation of the modern state of Syria and of its political institutions, all of which serve as the ... Read full review
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| Title | Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition |
| Author | Daniel Pipes |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1992 |
| ISBN | 0195363043, 9780195363043 |
| Subjects | › › History / Middle East / General Social Science / Regional Studies |
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