Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition - Hardcover

Pipes, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195060210 ISBN 13: 9780195060218

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 1990

Synopsis

While 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 the regions now governed by Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and Turkey. Though not nearly as well known as Arab or Palestinian nationalism and hardly studied at all 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 cholar Daniel Pipes provides the first comprehensive account of this intriguing, important, and little understood ideology.

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Review:

`(Pipes's) contribution here cannot be exaggerated, and the coverage given this ideology will be inserted into the analysis of Syrian politics for years to come.'Library Journal

`a superior book'Foreign Affairs

From the Back Cover:

Scholars and journalists have long neglected one major theme of political life in the Middle East--Pan-Syrian nationalism. This is 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0195060210
• ISBN 13: 9780195060218
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 249