The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks took place from 1916 until 1918 and was led by Husayn bin Ali. What was Husayn bin Ali trying to accomplish in this revolt? He wanted to take control of the Ottoman Empire. He wanted to create a unified Arab state from Syria to Yemen. He wanted to establish a Muslim empire in the Middle East and Europe. He wanted to create a federation of all Muslim countries.
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The Arab Revolt (1916–1918) (Arabic: الثورة العربية Al-Thawra al-`Arabiyya) (Turkish: Arap İsyanı) was initiated by the Sherif Hussein bin Ali with the aim of securing independence from the ruling Ottoman Turks and creating a single unified Arab state spanning from Aleppo in Syria to Aden in Yemen. Though the Sherifian revolt has tended to be regarded as a revolt rooted in a secular Arab nationalist sentiment, in June 1916, the Sherif did not present it in those terms; rather, he accused the Young Turks of violating the sacred tenets of Islam and called Arab Muslims to sacred rebellion against the ostensibly "impious" Ottoman government
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