Young Arab Society | |
جمعية العربية الفتاة | |
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| Formation | 14 November 1909 |
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| Founder | Izzat Darwaza Awni Abd al-Hadi Rustam Haidar |
| Headquarters | Paris (1911–1913) Beirut (1913–1914) Damascus (1914–1920) |
Region |  Ottoman Empire
 Arab Kingdom of Syria |
Membership (1920) | 169 official members |
Official language | Arabic |
Al-Fatat (Arabic: الفتاة, al-Fatat) or the Young Arab Society (Arabic: جمعية العربية الفتاة, Jam’iyat al-’Arabiya al-Fatat) was an underground Arab nationalist organization in the Ottoman Empire. Its aims were to gain independence and unify various Arab territories that were then under Ottoman rule. It found adherents in areas such as Syria. The organization maintained contacts with the reform movement in the Ottoman Empire and included many radicals and revolutionaries, such as Abd al-Mirzai.[1] They were closely linked to the Al-Ahd, or Covenant Society, who had members in positions within the military, most were quickly dismissed after Enver Pasha gained control in Turkey. This organization's parallel in activism were the Young Turks, who had a similar agenda that pertained to Turkish nationalism.