Zaki al-Arsuzi

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Zaki al-Arsuzi (around 1939)

Zakī al-Arsūzī ( Arabic زكي الأرسوزي, DMG Zakī al-Arsūzī ) or Zaki al-Arzouzi (* June 1899 in Alexandrette , today Turkey , † 1968 in Damascus , Syria ) was a Syrian teacher, philosopher and politician as well as a pioneer of pan-Arabism .

Although Arsuzi learned the Koran by heart at a Mektep school at an early age and his mother Maryam came from a religious family, he later became an atheist . After attending the Ottoman rüştiye secondary school and studying at the Sorbonne in Paris (1927–1930), the Alawit Arsuzi first settled in the Alawite-dominated port city of Antioch , the capital of Sandjak Alexandrette , who became French in 1920 . There he organized a pan-Arab campaign against the cession of the area to Turkey in 1938, but had to leave his home in 1939 and fled to Damascus. In Damascus around 1940, Arsuzi met Michel Aflaq and Salah ad-Din al-Bitar , the later founders of the Ba'ath Party . The later warring Syrian and Iraqi wings of the party presented the role and share of Arsuzi in the founding differently in their official party history. This also resulted in different information about the founding year. Apparently - in contrast to his students and followers - despite certain joint pan-Arab views due to personal differences with Aflaq, Arsuzi did not join the party himself, at the latest after the unification of the Baath party with Akram al-Haurani's Arab Socialist Party in 1953, he initially undressed back to politics. This saved him from internal party power struggles and purges, but not from being ideologically appropriated after his death by the Alawite neo-Baathists who came to power in 1966 and 1970.

literature

  • Dalal Arsuzi-Elamir Arab nationalism in Syria: Zaki al-Arsuzi and the Arab-national movement on the periphery Alexandretta / Antakaya 1930 - 1938 , Lit, Münster / Hamburg / London 2003, ISBN 978-3-8258-5917-6

Web links

Commons : Zaki al-Arsuzi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://damasedu.sy/?page=15&art_id=160
  2. ↑ other claims to it should in 1899 in the Syrian Latakia have been born
  3. ↑ David Dean Commins: Historical dictionary of Syria , page 43 in the Google book search. Maryland 2004
personal data
SURNAME Arsuzi, Zaki al-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arsouzi, Zaki al
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Syrian teacher and politician as well as a thought leader of pan-Arabism
DATE OF BIRTH June 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Alexandrette , today Turkey
DATE OF DEATH 1968
Place of death Damascus , Syria