The Arab National Party was an Arab nationalist

Arab nationalism

Arab nationalism is a nationalist ideology celebrating the glories of Arab civilization, the language and literature of the Arabs, calling for rejuvenation and political union in the Arab world...

 party in Syria in 1939, founded by Zaki al-Arsuzi

Zaki al-Arsuzi

Zakī al-Arsūzī born Latakia June 1899, died Damascus July 1968) was a Syrian political activist and writer, and is widely regarded as a main inspiration for the Ba'ath Party...

. Al-Arsuzi had been associated with Arab nationalist

Arab nationalism

Arab nationalism is a nationalist ideology celebrating the glories of Arab civilization, the language and literature of the Arabs, calling for rejuvenation and political union in the Arab world...

 politics during the interwar period. He had been associated with the National Action League

National Action League

The Nationalist Action League is a Syrian nationalist political party, created in 1932-1933 by a lawyer of Homs, Abderrazak al-Dandashli.This party was created in response to particular referred to the Turkish Sanjak of Alexandretta...

, a political party strongly influenced by fascism

Fascism

Fascism is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek to rejuvenate their nation based on commitment to the national community as an organic entity, in which individuals are bound together in national identity by suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and blood...

 and Nazism

Nazism

Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...

 with its paramilitary "Ironshirts", that existed in Syria from 1932 to 1940. Al-Arsuzi left the National Action League in 1939 after its popular leader died and the party had fallen into disarray, he founded the Arab National Party in 1939 and dissolved later that year.