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" ʿAflaq, Michel - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Picard, Elizabeth
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English
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1062969
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ALei3366
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Picard, Elizabeth
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ʿAflaq, Michel - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Picard, Elizabeth
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(883 words)
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Michel (Mīshīl) ʿAflaq (c. 1910–89) was a Syrian philosopher and principal founder of the Arab nationalist Baʿth (“Renaissance”) Party. He was born in Damascus to a Greek Orthodox family. His father, a grain trader in the Mīdān, was an early supporter of Arab nationalism. A scholarship enabled ʿAflaq to study for five years, from 1928 to 1932, at the Sorbonne, in Paris, where he obtained a licence in history. Deeply interested in political philosophy, he read Proudhon and Marx, as well as Sorel, Bergson, and Maurras. Together with Ṣalāḥ
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Islam.
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ALei3366.pdf
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