Husayn’s revolt was dynastic-religious, not Arab nationalist

Evidence

Basically, however, this program was dynastic and separatist rather than na­ tionalist. Dealings between the Sherif of Mecca and Arab nationalist societies did not go smoothly. It is significant that when he rose in revolt against the Otto­ mans his manifesto was expressed in traditional religious terms rather than in Arab national terms. In it he denounces the Young Turks as impious innovators who were endangering Islam and depicts his own action as being taken in defense of the faith. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 861

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the standard nationalist historiography of the Arab Revolt — relevant to qualification work against accounts that read Arab nationalism back into 1916.