Germany and Italy supplied the unification model for Middle East unity movements
Evidence
The examples of Germany and Italy were and have remained a powerful stimulus to movements of this kind among the Muslim and Arab peoples, and there has been no lack of canĀ didates among the states of the area for the role of Prussia or Piedmont in the creation of a greater unity. At ļ¬rst the only possible candidate was the Ottoman Empire, and the larger unity proposed was an Islamic rather than a national oneāthat is to say, a pan-Islamic rather than a pan-Arab or pan-Turkish proĀ gram. ā Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 834
Categorization
- SEED: Could fuel an essay on how the Prussian/Piedmont unification template was projected onto the region ā the repertoire of nation-building borrowed wholesale from European precedents.