Al Din Al Khatib's Cairo-based magazine Al Fath, a Salafi modernist publication. Personal life Born into a Druze family, he always tried to link the faith with mainstream Islam, but himself converted to Sunni Islam, "establishing himself as an orthodox Muslim serving the interests of Sunni Islam." He married Suleima Alkhas Hatog, a Jordanian of Circassian descent, who bore him one son, Ghalib (born 1917) in Lebanon, and two daughters, May (1928–2013)) and Nazima (born 1930) in Switzerland. His daughter, May, married Lebanese Druze politician Kamal Jumblatt and he is the grandfather through her of Lebanese politician Walid Jumblatt. Arslan died on 9 December 1946, three months after he came back to Lebanon. Works Our Decline: Its Causes and Remedies (English translation published by Islamic Book Trust in 2004; ) Further reading Islam Against the West: Shakib Arslan and the Campaign for Islamic Nationalism by William L. Cleveland (University of Texas Press, 2011; ) Muslime im Zwischenkriegseuropa und die Dekonstruktion der Faszination vom Westen. Eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit Šakīb ʾArslāns Artikeln in der ägyptischen Zeitschrift al-Fatḥ (1926-1935) by Mehdi Sajid (EB-Verlag, 2015; ) See also List of political families Lakhmids References External links Emir Shakib Arslan biography by Hassan Shami at Aide Sanitaire Suisse Aux Palestiniens The Arab Nation of Shakib Arslan, a review of Islam Against the West, by Martin Kramer Swiss Exile: The European Muslim Congress, 1935 (an event organized by Arslan), a chapter from Islam Assembled: The Advent of the Muslim Congresses (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986) by Martin Kramer Rabah, Makram: Arslān, Shakīb, Amīr, in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. 1869 births 1946 deaths People from Aley District Shakib Lebanese Druze Lebanese princes Lebanese politicians Lebanese expatriates in Switzerland League of Nations people Lebanese exiles Lebanese political philosophers Ottoman Arabic poets Converts to Islam from Druzism