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Michel Aflak , né en 1910 à Damas et mort le 23 juin 1989 à Paris, est un écrivain, historien, enseignant et homme politique syrien.

Il fonde, avec son camarade Salah Eddine Bitar, le Parti socialiste de la résurrection arabe ou parti Baas, un parti nationaliste arabe prônant le panarabisme. À la tête du parti, il pose les bases idéologiques du nationalisme et du socialisme arabes. En 1966, après la prise de pouvoir des militaires sur le Baas, il est contraint avec les autres cadres du parti à l'exil. Il termine sa vie en Irak où il obtient le poste honorifique de Secrétaire général du comité panarabe du Baas. Wikipedia  

✵ 1910 – 23. juin 1989
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Michel Aflak: Citations en anglais

“Europe is as fearful of Islam today as she has been in the past. She now knows that the strength of Islam (which in the past expressed that of the Arabs) has been reborn and has appeared in a new form: Arab nationalism.”

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Michel Aflaq livre On the Way of Resurrection

On the Way of Resurrection (1943)

“The connection of Islam to Arabism is not, therefore, similar to that of any religion to any nationalism. The Arab Christians, when their nationalism is fully awakened and when they restore their genuine character, will recognize that Islam for them is nationalist education in which they have to be absorbed in order to understand and love it to the extent that they become concerned about Islam as about the most precious thing in their Arabism. If the actual reality is still far from this wish, the new generation of Arab Christians has a task which it should perform with daring and detachment, sacrificing for it their pride and benefits, for there is nothing that equals Arabism and the honor of belonging to it.”

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Michel Aflaq

In Memory of the Arab Prophet (1 April 1943)

“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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Source: In Memory of the Arab Prophet (1 April 1943)