in governed Iraq, Palestine and Transjordan (what is now Jordan). The British also controlled Egypt and deposed Khedive, Abbas, and Hilmi the second.By this time a concept called Pan-Turkism came about. It was the desire for the Turkish people of the Middle East to form one union with a common language and culture. Pan-Turkish brought out the need for Arabs to unite. Some historians believe Pan-Arabism and Arab nationalistic ideology found its roots as a result of Turkish attempts at nationalism. Arab nationalism or Pan-Arabism was a hard goal to achieve as their were so any obstacles in the paths of the people who wanted to unite the Arabs. One being that the Arabs were beginning to slowly develop differences since they now became individual countries ruled by France and England. They also had dissimilarities because the Arabs did not all share one common religion. There are Arab Christians, Arab Muslims, Lebanese Druze and so on. Religion played a significant role in Arab nationalism. In order for Arab nationalism to become a popular ideology, Arab nationalist had to address the question of the role of Islam in Arab nationalism. The issue was inescapable and was going to have to be addressed. Islam had such a traditional role in for providing a common ideology and legitimacy for the Middle Easts sociopolitical order. Yet not all Arabs were Muslim. The idea of Pan-Arabism was to unite the Arabs not the Muslims, to unite the Arabs no matter what religion they were. Islamic nationalism is a completely different subject. Islamic nationalism is the idea of uniting Muslims through a common identity and religion. It went on in India in the early nineteen hundreds when Muslims felt they needed to be seperated from the Hindu majority in India and nationalize. It led to the establishment of Pakistan in 1943.Yet the issue of Islam was very important sine Arab history, identity, pride and language had been closely linked to Is...
