Zaki al-Arsuzi

Zakī al - Arsūzī (Arabic زكي الأرسوزي, DMG Zakī al - Arsūzī ) and Zaki al - Arsouzi (* 1901 in Alexandretta, now Turkey, † 1968 in Damascus, Syria ) was a Syrian teacher, philosopher and politician as well as a thought leader of pan-Arabism.

After studying at the Sorbonne in Paris (1927-1930), the Alawit Arsuzi was first in the Alawite -dominated port city of Antioch, the capital of the Sanjak of Alexandretta become French in 1920, down. There he organized in 1938 a pan-Arab campaign against the cession of the territory to Turkey, but had to leave his homeland in 1939 and fled to Damascus. In Damascus Arsuzi met in 1940 to Michel Aflaq and Salah al-Din al - Bitar, the later founder of the Baath Party. The later another rival Syrian and Iraqi wing of the party down in their official party history, the role or share Arsuzis in establishing, justifying different results in different information about the foundation year. Obviously Arsuzi - in contrast to his students and followers - not joined, despite some common pan-Arab View of personal differences with the party itself Aflaq, Arab latest after the unification of the Baath Party with Akram al - Hauranis Socialist party in 1953 he withdrew from even politics died back and forgotten. This retreat saved him from intra-party power struggles and purges, but not from being recognized ideologically after his death by the 1966 and 1970 came to power Alawite neo- Baathists.