ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the revolt plans initiated by Arabs of the Empire. The Arab revolt of Sharif Husayn of Mecca is considered in the historical literature, both scholarly and popular, as the only revolutionary movement of the Arabs against the Ottoman Empire during World War. After World War I broke out in Europe, and before it spread to the Middle East, the Syrian Decentralization Party and the Alliance Libanaise society of Cairo agreed to open a joint revolt against the Ottomans if and when the Empire should enter the war. The chapter explains the number of revolt attempts which were carried out in Syria and Mount Lebanon at the time of the Arab revolt. In Iraq, too, a number of revolt plans were formulated, and a number of uprisings were carried out. Most of them were directed against the Ottomans, but towards the end of the war the first buds of a resistance movement against the British began to appear.
