Federation of Arab Republics - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
[Article]
van den Boogert, Maurits H.
Leiden
Brill
(588 words)
The Federation of Arab Republics (F.A.R., Ittiḥād al-Jumhūriyyāt al-ʿArabiyya ) was a projected political confederation of Libya, Egypt, and Syria, initiated by Colonel Muʿammar al-Qadhdhāfī (1942-2011), soon after he came to power in Libya, through a coup d'état, in September 1969. Collaboration was originally envisaged between Libya, Egypt, and Sudan, where Jaʿfar al-Nimayrī (1930-2009) had recently seized power. On 20 August 1970, Jamāl ʿAbd al-Nāṣir (who would die little more than a month later), al-Qadhdhāfī, and al-Nimayrī signed the