Adib Ishaq

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Adib Ishaq
Born21 January 1856
Damascus, Ottoman Syria
Died12 June 1884 (aged 28)
al-Hadath
OccupationJournalist

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

Jamal al-Din al-Afghani after meeting him in Cairo.[4]

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). .
  • Ayalon, Ami (1995). The Press in the Arab Middle East: A History. Oxford University Press. .
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  • Khayati, Mustapha. "Un disciple libre penseur de Al-Afghani : Adib Ishaq". Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée (in French).

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