Religion and Society in the East
The periodical of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2542-1530
Issues
Religious Issues Through the Prism of the Ideology of Arab Socialist Ba‘ath Party
Religiia i obshchestvo na Vostoke, Issue I (2017), p. 221-256.
[The original article in Arabic]
The Ba‘athism and Arabism ideology does not accept using of confessional factor in the interests of both state power and any of social groups, condemning such an appearence in history. Extremism, which is of a religious color, was inherent in all religious communities. It must be eradicated in the Arab world as not
conforming to the spirit of the Arab nation, its historical mission and its high civilizational contribution on a global scale.
(The article was provided by Abdullah al-Ahmar, Assistant Secretary-General of the Ba‘ath Party, National Command (Syria), specially for the “Religion and Society in the East”, January 30, 2017).
Keywords: Middle East, religious communities, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, religious policy, Arabism, Baathism
Volume: 221-256
