INTRODUCTION The modern idea of Al-quawmiyya al-arrbiya, generally rendered in English as 'Arab Nationalism ' is not equivalent to the Arabic al-qawmiya, the latter derived from qawm, is a newcomer to the Arab political terminology.' Before the twentieth century, the word qawm had no political connotation, but as used during present time it has come to denote all the Arab speaking people, disregarding, in principle, the geographical and political...