Arab Ba'ath Movement

{{Infobox political party

| name = Arab Ba'ath Movement

| native_name = حركة البعث العربي

| logo = File:Flag of the Ba'ath Party.svg

| colorcode = {{party color|Ba'ath Party}}

| leader = Michel Aflaq and Salah al-Din al-Bitar

| foundation = {{start date|1940}}

| dissolved = {{end date|1947}}

| predecessor = Party of National Brotherhood

| successor = Ba'ath Party

| newspaper = Al-Tali'a

| ideology = Ba'athism

| colors = Black, Red, White and Green (Pan-Arab colors)

| native_name_lang = ar

| country = Syria

}}

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The Arab Ba{{ayin}}ath Movement ({{langx|ar|حركة البعث العربي}} Ḥarakat al-Ba{{ayin}}th al-‘Arabī; lit. Arab Resurrection Movement or Arab Renaissance Movement) was a Baathist political party and predecessor of the Arab Socialist Ba{{ayin}}ath Party.Jasim M. Abdulghani. Iraq & Iran: the years of crisis. Croom Helm, Ltd., 1984. Pp. 27. The party was first named the Arab Ihya Movement (Ḥarakat al-Iḥyā{{hamza}} al-‘Arabī; Arab Revitalization Movement) until 1943 when it adopted the name "Ba{{ayin}}ath" (meaning resurrection).Michel Curtis. People and Politics in the Middle East. Transaction Books. Pp. 132, 139.Jasim M. Abdulghani. Iraq & Iran: the years of crisis. Croom Helm, Ltd., 1984. Pp. 27. It was founded in 1940 by Michel Aflaq.Michel Curtis. People and Politics in the Middle East. Pp. 132.David Seddon. A political and economic dictionary of the Middle East. London, England, UK: Taylor & Francis e-library, 2005. Pp. 19.Ghareeb, Edmund A.; Dougherty, Beth K. Historical Dictionary of Iraq. Lanham, Maryland and Oxford: The Scarecrow Press, Ltd., 2004. Pp. 2. Its founders, Aflaq and Bitar, were both associated with nationalism and socialism.Rami Ginat. Egypt's incomplete revolution: Lutfi al-Khuli and Nasser's socialism in the 1960s. Routledge, 1997. Pp. 11.