Nāṣirism

A form of Nasserism — An Arab nationalist political ideology based on the thinking of the former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.

Meanings

nounNāṣirism (plural Nāṣirisms)

plural Nāṣirisms

  1. alternativeAlternative form of Nasserism.

    This could be observed in many of their statements from 1956 onwards: that is from the time that Nāṣirism began to overshadow all other ideological trends in the Arab world.

    2005, Hamid Enayat, Modern Islamic Political Thought
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    However, Shamʽūn’s policies did not only manage to alienate the Muslim street – by opposing Nāṣirism – and the Muslim élites – by preventing their election to the Assembly in 1957 – [...]

    2015, Borja W. González Fernández, “Ecclesia triumphans? Sectarianism and the Maronite Community, 1943-1975”, in Collectanea Christiana Orientalia, page 81

    Those with ill intentions describe the diplomatic dialogue going on between the United Arab Republic, on the one hand, and the United States and the United Kingdom, on the other, as backing down by Nāṣirism.

    2018, William W. Haddad, The Arab-Israeli Conflict in the Arab Press
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