Adib Ishaq
Adib Ishaq | |
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Born | 21 January 1856 Damascus, Ottoman Syria |
Died | 12 June 1884 (aged 28) al-Hadath |
Occupation | Journalist |
Adib Ishaq (
Arabic: اديب اسحق, ALA-LC: Adīb Isḥāq; 21 January 1856 – 12 June 1885)[1] was an important Syrian literary figure of nineteenth-century Arab Nahda.[2]
Born in
In 1879, he founded the Parisian journal Misr al-Qahira (Egypt the Victorious) with the help of Abdallah Marrash.[5]
He died at his summer estate in al-Hadath[6] (in present-day Lebanon). A collection of his works in Arabic was published under the title Al-Durar (The Pearls) by Jirjis Mikha'il Nahhas in Alexandria in 1886; another edition of Al-Durar, edited by Adib's brother Awni, was published in Beirut in 1909.
References
Sources
- Fakkar, Rouchdi; Fakkār, Rushdī (1972). Aux origines des relations culturelles contemporaines entre la France et le monde arabe (in French). ISBN 9782705316815.
- Ayalon, Ami (1995). The Press in the Arab Middle East: A History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195087802.
- ISBN 978-2908833003.
- Khayati, Mustapha. "Un disciple libre penseur de Al-Afghani : Adib Ishaq". Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée (in French).
External links
- Media related to Adib Ishaq at Wikimedia Commons
- Al-Durar at Open Library