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Arabism
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Ar´a`bism
n.1.An Arabic idiom peculiarly of language.

Arabism
a devotion to Arab interests, custom, culture, ideals, and political goals.
See also: Politics


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Thank you for providing the opportunity to point out that former State Department Arabists, such as yourself, were distinguished not by their partisanship, but by their knowledge of the Arab culture and Arabic language.
Hence, one may realize that historical continuity, even if easily proven, often goes hand in hand with conceptual discontinuity, and especially so, when the search for continuity mostly reflects the research interests of modern Arabists rather than the authentic intellectual concerns of the classical Muslim thinkers of the long bygone past.
However, most of the Arabists do not wish to see Israel disappear; they do not hate Jews or even Israelis.
 
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