The history of Zionist thought: its roots, its course, and its crisis, author: Dr. Abdul Wahab Al-Masiri

In this important book, Dr. Abdul Wahab Al-Masiri discusses and analyzes the history of Zionist thought, the Zionist movement, and its roots in Western civilization. This study is considered a continuation and development of the general theses that Al-Masiri addressed in his various studies on the Zionist phenomenon, most notably the Encyclopedia of the History of Zionism (1997) and the Encyclopedia of Jews, Judaism, and Zionism: A New Interpretive Model (1999). The book traces the history of Zionist thought before Herzl and Balfour, and the stages it went through until it crystallized in the early twentieth century. It then addresses the strange roots of Zionist thought, highlighting the relationship between Zionism and Western intellectual currents such as Romanticism and Nietzscheanism, as well as Western political movements like Nazism and Fascism. The book also reviews the most important Zionist currents and the points of agreement and disagreement among them before discussing the current state of Zionism, its stance towards Jewish communities worldwide, and the features of its historical crisis. Number of pages: 647