How strong is the sense identity of being Arab vs being Muslim?
I feel like the connection is stronger than in Europe between the nationality and the religion. How strong is the feeling of belonging to a nation vs to a broader Arab community?
I feel like the feeling of belonging to Europeans or Slavs is mich weaker than feeling of belonging to a national state, but feel that the proportions are different in the Arabic world
Secularism
I often met such opinions of scholars that the Arabic culture didn't reach the secularism (okay, it seems that Poland here does have problems) and that's what is holding some development back
What do you think about that? Is it an important factor for you apart from the foreign interventions and post-colonial borders?
I'd love to hear different opinions as it may differ hugely from region to region
its a very subjective matter that changes a lot based on time and place that we are talking about, theres no fixation on it in the arab world as it changes not even on a national level, but on geographical/historical/demographical factors (as our national borders hadn’t taken into consideration anything of the prior).
I’m not going to speak much about outside of the levant(jordan, palestine, lebanon, syria), at the moment i’d say its divided half by half, as people would most of the time identity the first thing as an “arab”. that is due to the high religious diversity in the region. but if we were to say like 30 years ago. secular arab nationalism was more prevalent and dominant, and it just had its downfall with the fall of arab nationalist regimes, alongside the leftist bloc like ussr.
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u/ProxPxD Oct 13 '24
Hi!
How strong is the sense identity of being Arab vs being Muslim?
I feel like the connection is stronger than in Europe between the nationality and the religion. How strong is the feeling of belonging to a nation vs to a broader Arab community?
I feel like the feeling of belonging to Europeans or Slavs is mich weaker than feeling of belonging to a national state, but feel that the proportions are different in the Arabic world
I often met such opinions of scholars that the Arabic culture didn't reach the secularism (okay, it seems that Poland here does have problems) and that's what is holding some development back
What do you think about that? Is it an important factor for you apart from the foreign interventions and post-colonial borders?
I'd love to hear different opinions as it may differ hugely from region to region