What are some very specific events and historical developments

>>2289495
The Iranian Revolution basically started it.

>>2289495
The spread of Islam

>>2289495
The establishment of Western model armies with officers trained in Europe at a time when nationalism was spreading like wildfire.

The consolidation of several Ottoman provinces into large states with one region declared supreme over all others.

Rapid urbanization and population growth due to the green revolution creating economic problems.

Proxy wars fought between the US and Russia, and also Saudi Arabia and Iran.

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>>2289495
dissolution of the ottoman empire was a mistake
rather than these guys the middle-east was given to the control of wahhabi bedoins and tribal leaders

>>2289495
Biggest one would be the nonsensical borders established post-WWI including, predominately, Saudi Arabia. British and American influence peddling in Iran was the second biggest mistake, Support of Israel the third.

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The Eternal Anglo, of course

>>2289495
It's a shit show, but it all started with the fall of the Ottoman Empire

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>>2289495

It goes back much further than WW2 or the Ottomans.

Arabs would not rule themselves from the 10th century--when the empires founded by Muhammad's generals fell--until right up to the 20th century. Nearly one thousand years in which regular Arabs were excluded from power in the Middle East, instead ruled by a series of outsiders; Kurds, Persians, Turks (predominantly), and the British/French.

The Turks may have been Muslim but they still considered themselves wholly different from the Arabs they ruled over, and most Ottoman citadels were built more for segregation than defense. When the Saudis demolished the Ottoman citadel overlooking Mecca recently, that was used partially as justification; it had been built to keep Wahhabi Arabs out of Mecca.

"Anti-West" sentiment is just the latest iteration of their contempt for anything even tangentially reminiscent of foreign domination and Arab subjugation. They're also very keen to apply it to each other, for example during the Reconquista;

>Ibn Khaldûn, for instance, labeled them “weak-minded,” a people who had lost their group feeling, instinct for cooperation, and ability to take power as a result of the annihilation of their Arab Dynasty. According to his words, the Spanish Muslims had been enslaved by tyranny and become used to being humiliated. Ibn Khaldûn pushed his analysis further: “The [Muslim] Spaniards are found to assimilate themselves to the [Christian] Galician nations in their dress, their emblems and most of their customs and conditions. This goes so far that they even draw pictures on the walls and have them in buildings and houses. The intelligent observer will draw from this the conclusion that it is a sign of being dominated by others.”

Israel wants to destabilize the region for its own benefit

>>2289937
Their anti-Western (anti-Christendom) sentiment is long standing and comes from Muhammad himself through the Quran and Islam. The Arab (Bedouins) were not native to the Levant before the rise of Islam and the breakout Islam conquests.

Sykes-picot

>>2289962
Bedouin is just an Arabic word for monad. Bedouins can be Arab and non-Arab.

>>2289962
You're pretty uninformed.

>>2289979
The followers of Muhammad were mostly traders and nomads as Muhammad himself was. I was using Bedouin to distinguish the Arabs of the Arabian Peninsula from people who happen to speak Arabic and may not or may not actually be an ethnic Arab.

>>2289992
Pre-Islamic Arabia was full of tons of Christians, jews, and polytheists from the near East. Even the biblical fairytale of Mosses speaks of Arabia

>>2289992
Your phrasing of "anti-Christendom" shows your eurocentric view of everything. That isn't even a phrase, anyway.

>>2289992
>Arabia Felix didn't exist
>Arabia wasn't Hellenic

>>2290034
The name Arabia felix is Latin not Greek

>>2290044
>The term "Fertile Arabia" is a translation of the Latin "Arabia felix." Felix means "fecund, fertile" but also "happy, fortunate, blessed." Arabia Felix was one of three regions into which the Romans divided the Arabian peninsula: Arabia Deserta, Arabia Felix, and Arabia Petraea.

>>2290050
Yes. Not Hellenic, but we're straying from the original point

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>>2289495
>>2289635
>>2289969

1916 Sykes Picot - secret agreement that wanted to divide the Ottoman Empire into colonial territories. From this map you can see how important Ataturk is to the Turks - he saved the country from being carved into pieces.

Lawrence of Arabia was a British spy who orchestrated an Arabian rebellion promising them complete independence. They then created countries like Iraq where they put the son of the leader of the rebellion as king, but the country was a 'British mandate', de facto ruled by their oil companies.

>>2289526
Islam is an anti-nationalist religion though