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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 May 2002
With few exceptions, Orientalist polemics and nationalist inventions of history havedominated the study of nationalism in the Arab Middle East. The lack of a critical framework andhistorical analysis has led many scholars to doubt the very existence of nationalism in the region.Nationalism has been treated either as a political instrument of ambitious leaders and intellectualsor an insignificant phase in Arab history, soon replaced by political Islamic movements,regionalism, and tribalism.