Arab Perceptions of the Balkans at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

The opening decade of the last century witnessed dynamic political development in both the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire and the newly re-established independent Balkan states. The Arabs and their northern neighbours from the Balkans have inherited quite comprehensive patterns of perceptions vis-à-vis one another. In modern times, Arab attitudes towards the Balkans have very much in common with the shared experiences in modernisation. The paper aims to uncover these attitudes.