13 Facts About Shakib Arslan

Shakib Arslan was a Lebanese writer, poet, historian, politician, and Emir in Lebanon.

Shakib Arslan argued that the survival of the Ottoman Empire was the only guarantee against the division of the ummah and its occupation by the European imperial powers.

Shakib Arslan was a contributor to Barid Al Sharq, a propaganda newspaper published in Berlin, Nazi Germany.

However, Shakib Arslan did not personally agree with Nazism, instead viewing them as a tool to break the other colonial powers.

Amir Shakib Arslan proposed an interpretation of Islam imbued with a sense of political power and moral courage.

Shakib Arslan sought to rebuild the bonds of Islamic unity, urging Muslims from Morocco to Iraq to remember their common commitment to Islam despite their individual differences.

Shakib Arslan believed that recognising and acting upon this common bond could lead to liberation from their existing subjugation.

Shakib Arslan saw this unity as a way of reviving what he saw as their illustrious history.

Shakib Arslan's work inspired anti-imperialist propaganda campaigns, much to the irritation of the British and French authorities in the Arab world.

Shakib Arslan defended Islam as an essential component of social morality.

Shakib Arslan contributed to Muhib Al Din Al Khatib's Cairo-based magazine Al Fath, a modernist Salafi publication.

Shakib Arslan married Suleima Alkhas Hatog, a Jordanian of Circassian descent.

Shakib Arslan died on 9 December 1946, three months after returning to Lebanon.