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Al-Fatāt was a secret organisation established by Arab students in 1909, in Paris, and active in Syria until the French occupation of Syria in July 1920. The first Arab clandestine society formed during the Young Turk period, it took the name Jamʿiyyat al-Umma al-ʿArabiyya al-Fatāt (Society of the Young Arab Nation). Confronting the Turkification policies of the Young Turks, the society strived to protect the “natural rights” of the Arab nation within the Ottoman Empire. Numbering about forty members, the society maintained high standards of secrecy,
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- Publisher(s):Brill
- Language:eng
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- wc:ALei533
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