"A day will come when the nationalists will find themselves the only defenders of Islam. They will have to give a special meaning to it if they want the Arab nation to have a good reason for survival."
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In Memory of the Arab Prophet (1 April 1943)
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Michel Aflaq
Michel Aflaq (Arabic: ميشيل عفلق ʿAflaq, born Damascus 1910, died Paris June 23, 1989) was a Syrian philosopher, who is credited with being the ideological founder of ba'athism, a hybrid of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism.
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