In the 19th century there were numerous attempts to preserve the Ottoman Empire, revive Islam, and deal with the growing influence of European culture and lifestyle. This resulted in numerous attempts at a cultural revival. When talking about the Arab cultural movement or renaissance, which began in Egypt in the late 19th and early 20th century, we come across the Arab word alNahda. The Nahda movement is considered a period of intellectual modernization and reform in the Arab world. The nations and cultures of Western Asia were facing an ordeal: should they yield to the power of European technology and science, should they adapt to it at the cost of abandoning their own civilizational traditions, or should they find a third path, in which the nations of this region would find a way to cooperate with the West while preserving their own identity? Most Islamic intellectuals felt that they should rediscover their own authenticity or their cultural, religious and overall civilizational roots. If we look back at subsequent events, we can see that, despite its aggressive intervention in the developments in this region, the West has not destroyed Islam, nor the civilization of Western Asia. The process of adapting this part of the world to the modern world is still in progress. In certain aspects, it has unfortunately remained the same as it was prior to World War I.