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Pharaonism
Pharaonism is a ideology that rose to prominence in Egypt in the 1920s and 1930s. It looked to Egypt's pre-Islamic past and argued that Egypt was a part of the Greek civilization and was thus a thouroughly western nation. This ideology stessed the role of the Nile River and the Mediterranean Sea. Pharaonism's most notable advocate was Taha Husayn .
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