Abdallah Marrash

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Abdallah Marrash
British
Relatives
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Abdallah bin Fathallah bin Nasrallah Marrash (

Syrian
writer involved in various Arabic-language newspaper ventures in London and Paris.

Life

Abdallah Marrash was born in Aleppo, a city of Ottoman Syria (present-day Syria), to an old Melkite family of merchants known for their literary interests.[2] Having earned wealth and standing in the 18th century, the family was well established in Aleppo,[3] although they had gone through troubles: a relative of Abdallah, Butrus Marrash, was killed by the wali's troops in the midst of a Catholic–Orthodox clash in April 1818.[4] Other Melkite Catholics were exiled from Aleppo during the persecutions, among them the priest Jibrail Marrash.[5][a] Abdallah's father, Fathallah, tried to defuse the Sectarian conflict by writing a treatise in 1849, in which he rejected the Filioque.[7] He had built up a large private library[8] to give his three children Francis, Abdallah and Maryana a thorough education, particularly in the field of Arabic language and literature.[9]

Aleppo was then a major intellectual center of the

Arabic with French, and other foreign languages (Italian and English).[10] After studying in Aleppo, Abdallah went to Europe to pursue his studies while devoting himself to trade.[11]

Having established himself in Manchester by 1863,[12] he became a naturalized British subject on 6 May 1868 under Aliens Act 1844,[13] and on 11 July 1872 under Naturalization Act 1870.[14][15] He accessed the collections of Arabic manuscripts in London and Paris and copied what he thought was useful to his Middle Eastern compatriots.[11] In 1879, he helped Adib Ishaq found the Parisian journal Misr al-Qahira (Egypt the Victorious).[16] Marrash founded Kawkab al-Mashriq (The Star of the Orient), a monthly Parisian Arabic-French bilingual journal, the first issue of which was published on 23 June 1882; it was ephemeral.[17] In 1882, Marrash settled down in Marseille, where he died on 17 January 1900.[18] He had been a member of the Société Asiatique.[19]

Notes

  1. ^ Little is known about the lives of Butrus Marrash and Jibrail Marrash. Butrus was married by the time he was killed, and the name of his father was Nasrallah Marrash; Niqula al-Turk wrote a funeral ode for him.[6]

References

  1. ^ Griolet & Vergé 1905, p. 76.
  2. ^ Wielandt 1992, p. 119; Zeidan 1995, p. 50.
  3. ^ Wielandt 1992, p. 119; Hafez 1993, p. 274.
  4. ^ Wielandt 1992, p. 120; Charon 1903, p. 115; Kuroki 1993, pp. 6–7.
  5. ^ Charon 1903, p. 115.
  6. ^ Wielandt 1992, p. 120; Charon 1903, p. 115.
  7. ^ Wielandt 1992, p. 120.
  8. ^ Zeidan 1995, p. 50.
  9. ^ Wielandt 1992, p. 122; Tomiche 1991, p. 598.
  10. ^ a b Tomiche 1991, p. 598.
  11. ^ a b Veccia Vaglieri 1940, p. 285: "II Marrash ebbe un fratello 'Abdallah, che, fatti i suoi studi in Aleppo, passò in Europa, dove, pur dedicandosi al commercio, continuò a coltivare gli studi. Egli frequentava le raccolte di manoscritti arabi esistenti a Parigi e Londra e copiava quello che riteneva utile ai suoi compatriotti".
  12. ^ Strakers' Annual Mercantile, Ship & Insurance Register, p. 78.
  13. ^ Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons 1868 (named as "Marrash, Abdoulah").
  14. ^ Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons 1875.
  15. ^ Journal du droit international privé, p. 155.
  16. ^ Génériques 1990, p. 121; Ayalon 1995, p. 44.
  17. ^ Ayalon 1987, p. 177.
  18. ^ Griolet & Vergé 1905, p. 77.
  19. ^ Journal asiatique.

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