pan-Arabistn.adj.

1936 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 56 106 The poet [Shauqi] is presented as a pan-Arabist, rooted in the classic literature and history, yet fully in sympathy with the present progressive movements.

1941 Times 8 Apr. 6/5 All these [Iraqi] officers are fervent Pan-Arabists.

1962 Listener 1 Mar. 365/1 To young Arab Nationalists—to young Pan-Arabists everywhere—Egypt under President Nasser seemed destined to unite the Arab world.

1996 Hist. & Theory 35 335 A nation without a state, or with a surfeit of states (for example, Germany before unification, or the Middle East in the eyes of pan-Arabists) appears to suffer an almost ontological deficit.

1956 Times 23 Oct. 9/7 Nationalist and extreme pan-Arabist emotions are likely to be predominant.

1974 Advocate (Newark, Ohio) 2 Sept. 5/3 The Baath party is a pan-Arabist, non-Communist movement that rejects Egyptian Arab socialism.

1991 Dissent Winter 6/1 He runs a vicious police state and champions a fierce Pan-Arabist chauvinism.

2003 Wilson Q. Spring 39 The Saudis were..receptive to pan-Arabist dreams only insofar as they helped spread the Wahhabite creed through the Muslim world.