Louis Cheikho
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Louis Cheikho (
Biography
Louis Cheikho was born in Mardin, Turkey on February 5, 1859.[1] His father was an ethnic Assyrian, and a member of the Chaldean Catholic Church, whose Assyrian family had been based at Mardin for at least three centuries. His mother was an Armenian named Elizabeth Schamsé, who took him on pilgrimage to the Holy Land when he was 9-years old.
Early life
In 1868, Cheikhô joined his brother at the
In 1874, he entered the
In 1878, he returned to
In 1888, Cheikho travelled to
Finally in 1894, he settled in Beirut, Lebanon, where he continued his academic career at Université Saint-Joseph.
Cheikho died in Beirut, Lebanon in 1927.
Cheikho is perhaps the founder of modern publications of unpublished Eastern Christian texts, especially Christian Arabic texts. He also founded, in 1898, the journal Al-Machriq, and contributed many articles and publications to its pages. In addition to Al Machriq Cheikho also edited another Jesuit publication, Al Bashir.[2]
His work was an inspiration for CEDRAC.
Famous Turkish poet Mehmet Akif Ersoy said that his work "Majani al-Adab" can be used in teaching Arabic.
Works
- Les poètes arabes chrétiens. Poètes antéislamiques. Qouss, évêque de Najran, dans Études religieuses..., 1888, pp. 592–611.
- Le Christianisme et la littérature chrétienne en Arabie avant l'Islam, (3 vol.), Beirut, 1913, 1919, 1923.
- La Nation maronite et la Compagnie de Jésus aux XVI et XVII siècles, Beirut, 1923. (Translated into French by Y. Moubarac, Beirut, 1984).
- (in Arabic) Les vizirs et secrétaires arabes chrétiens en Islam (622-1517), (text established and annotated by Camille Hechaïmé), Beirut, 1987.
- Les Saints particulièrement honorés des Libanais, Beirut, 1914 (translated into French by Y. Moubarac)
- (in Arabic) Les savants arabes chrétiens en Islam (622-1300), (ed. by C. Héchaïmé), Jounieh, 1983.
- Anciens traités arabes contenant La politique de Themistius, l'économie domestique de Probus (?), les récits amusants de Barhebraeus et l'exclusion de la tristesse, attribué à Platon (publiés par Louis Cheikho), Impr. catholique, Beirut, 1920–23, 68p.
- (in Arabic) Vingt traités théologiques d'auteurs arabes chrétiens, IXe-XIIIe siècle, (publiés par le P. Louis Cheikho avec le concours des P.P. Louis Malouf et Constantin Bacha), deuxième édition augmentée, Imprimerie Catholique, Beirut, 1920, 148p.
- (in Arabic) La littérature arabe au XIX siècle. 1ère partie: de 1800 à 1870. Beirut: Imprimérie Catholique, 1908. 134p; 2ième partie: de 1870 a 1900. Beirut: Imprimérie Catholique, 1910. 206p.
Bibliography
- Henri Lammens: Le P. Louis Cheikho, Lyon, 1929.
- Camille Hechaïmé: Louis Cheikho et son livre ‘le christianisme et la littérature chrétienne en Arabie avant l’Islam', Dar el-Machreq, Beyrouth, 1967.
- R.B. Campbell: The Arabic Journal `al-Machriq'... under the editorship of Père L. Cheikho, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1972.
Notes
- ^ CEDRAC article Archived 2007-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 978-0-2263-7873-2.)
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