Najjadeh Party, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The An-Najjadah, Najjadah or Najjadeh or Najjada ('the rescuers' (the helpers) in Arabic) is a Lebanese nationalist party of Fascist trend that appeared in Lebanon during the 1930s. The third largest Lebanese right-wing organization after the SSNP and the Kataeb, the An-Najjadah was first founded in 1935-36 at Beirut by Adnan Al-Hakim, a Sunni university teacher and politician. Radical conservative and anti-Communist in its ideology, the Najjadah also advocated Arab nationalism and although it never really worked for it, this did not prevent the party of attracting a very large following within the Sunni Muslim community, especially in Beirut during the 1930s and 1940s. By 1940 the Najjadah claimed to have some 30, 000 adhrents, well-organized into uniformed sections according to the prevalent Fascist standards of the time, which included a paramilitary branch and an official newspaper. In 1943 Adnan Al-Hakim and his party joined their Christian Phalangist rivals into a united front calling for Lebanon's immediate independence from France, causing the party to be banned by the French mandatory authorities until the end of World War two.