"The Arab Awakening", A Source for the Historian

George Antonius, C. B. E., was born in the Lebanon in I89I of Greek Orthodox parents. He had the benefits of British nationality and education. He first went to Victoria College, Alexandria, then to King's College, Cambridge. In the I920S, he became a high Civil Servant in the Mandatory Government of Palestina and subsequently, a prominent member in the Palestine Arab movement. He died in I942 in Jerusalem 2. His book The Arab Awakening is the only book available in English at the present moment which deals with the question of the Arab literary revival of the nineteenth century and tries to link this literary revival with the later national movement. This is no doubt the reason why the book is often indiscriminately used as the only source of reference on the subject. It first appeared in 1938, when the political situation in Palestine made it necessary for the Arabs-as well as the Zionists-to make as much publicity in the West, and win as much support as possible. In the first paragraph of the foreword to his book, the author says that the object of this book is primarily to tell a story and to mark its significance; not to give a final and detailed history of the Arab Movement, but only an outline in the form of a continuous narrative; such a continuous history of the movement is lacking, and what has appeared so far has been based on either Arabic sources or English ones, but not on a combination of the

Ancient history · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Middle East Politics and Society

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