Baath

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See also: Bååth

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From Arabic بَعْث (baʕṯ, “resurrection”), part of the party's official name, حِزْب البَعْث العَرَبِيّ الاِشْتِرَاكِيّ (ḥizb al-baʕṯ al-ʕarabiyy al-ištirākiyy, literally “the party of the Arab socialist resurrection”). The sequence ــَعْـ (aʿ) is often rendered as ⟨aa⟩ in English; compare Baalbek for بَعْلَبَكّ (baʕlabakk), the Kaaba for الكَعْبَة (al-kaʕba), Saad (name) for سَعْد (saʕd), or zaatar for زَعْتَر (zaʕtar).

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the Baath

  1. The Arab Socialist Baath Party, a secular Arab socialist political party present in several countries in the Middle East, most prominently Iraq and Syria.
    • 1959, Swiss Review of World Affairs‎, page 23:
      Today it is they that proclaim the slogan of "federation"—which is opposed to the Baath's postulates.
    • 1978, Lewis B. Ware, A Handbook of the Arab-Israeli Crisis‎, page 96:
      Nasser had a country without a party, but the Baath was still a party without a country.
    • 1980, Adeed I. Dawisha, Syria and the Lebanese crisis‎, page 46:
      For the Party to succeed in achieving these aims, Aflaq insisted that the Baath had to be nationalist, populist, socialist and revolutionary.
    • 1995, Milton Viorst, Sandcastles‎, page 23:
      The Baath was small but well organized and bold, and could not be intimidated.
    • 2012, William Mark Habeeb, The Middle East in Turmoil‎, page 185:
      The Baath is an avowedly secular party that has pursued socialist economic policies and at one time was aligned with the "godless" Soviet Union.
    • 2016, Imad Mansour, Statecraft in the Middle East‎, page 125:
      The 1973 War was an opportunity for decision makers to demonstrate that their work under the Baath was substantively different than their predecessors, [...]
    • 2018, Rania Abouzeid, No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria‎:
      The Baath was the party of the downtrodden, stacked with minorities and the rural poor of all sects, including Sunni.
    • 2021, Christopher Solomon, In Search of Greater Syria‎, page 5:
      It was on this platform that the Baath would bring glory, honor, and enlightenment back to the Arab World in the wake of European colonialism.

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  1. ^ “Baath” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

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