Sa'd ibn Junaydil

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Sa'd ibn Junaydil
Native name
سعد ابن جنيدل‎
Born1915 (1915)
Shaqra, Emirate of Nejd and Hasa
Died20 June 2006(2006-06-20) (aged 87)
Taif, Mecca Province, Saudi Arabia
OccupationHistorical geographer
LanguageArabic
Alma materKing Saud University
Years active1972–2004

Sa'd bin Abdullah al-Junaydil, commonly known as Sa'd ibn Junaydil (Arabic: سعد ابن جنيدل, romanized: Saʻd ibn Junaydil;‎ 1915 – 20 June 2006), was a Saudi Arabian historical geographer. Alongside Hamad Al-Jassir, Muhammad al-Ubudi and Abd al-Rahman al-Ansari, he is considered one of the first Saudi geographers in the 20th century.[1] Al-Junaydil was born in Shaqra, Najd and graduated from King Saud University in 1972. He worked as a merchant, schoolteacher and headteacher until the 1970s. He had an interest in Najdi folklore, collecting artifacts and wrote several dictionaries and geographical encyclopedias from the 1970s until he died in Taif at the age of 87.[2]

Biography

Sa'd bin Abdullah bin Ibrahim Al-Junaydil was born in 1915 in

ulema, studied the Qur'an, tafsirs and hadith and obtained an elementary certificate in his hometown. He worked in agriculture and trade with his father. His father was also a poet and had a library, and Al-Junaydil benefited greatly from his teachings. He started regular education late, as he was right-hand of his father in business.[3]

Al-Junaydil continued his education in

American University in Beirut, due to his family circumstances and his association with his merchent father. For the same reason, he rejected two nominations for the position of director of education in Al Atawilah in Al-Bahah Province, and director of education in Al Qunfudhah city in the Mecca Region.[3]

Al-Junaydil joined the College of Arts at

general education from the Faculty of Education of the same university. [4] He started writing poetry on special occasions at an early age, and now began writing essays in newspapers. His first article was titled "To the Tribune of Criticism" in the Sawt Al-Hijaz newspaper. He published his first poem in Al-Yamamah magazine in the same year, and he also published some of his writings in the Al-Ishaa'a magazine before it was closed. After graduating, he published a number of geographical and historical researches in the Al-Arab magazine, and he also published a number of researches about Islamic education in the Al-Da'wah newspaper in Riyadh.[4]

Death

He was suffering from an illness that afflicted him at the end of his life. He traveled by plane from Riyadh to Taif to spend the summer away from the severe heat, but his illness worsened. He died in Taif on 20 June 2006 and his body was transferred to Mecca. Funeral rites were performed in the Great Mosque of Mecca on the afternoon of 21 June.[5][6] In June 2011, Riyadh Municipality named a street[7] after him in the Al-Sahafa neighborhood.[8]

Works

Al-Jandil wrote a number of multi-genre and topic books, which are:[9]

  • Arabic: المعجم الجغرافي للبلاد العربية السعودية, romanized: al-Muʻjam al-jughrāfī lil-bilād al-ʻArabīyah al-Saʻūdīyah, three volumes, 1978
  • Arabic: بلاد الجوف او دومة الجندل : بحوث جغرافية، تاريخية، اجتماعية، ادبية,
  • Arabic: أصول التربية الإسلامية، مقارنة مع نظريات التربية, romanized: Uṣūl al-tarbīyah al-Islāmīyah., 1981
  • Arabic: بين الغزل والهزل, romanized: Bayna al-ghazal wa-al-hazal : Majmūʻah min al-shiʻr al-shaʻbī, 1980
  • Arabic: من أعلام الأدب الشعببي, romanized: Min aʻlām al-adab al-shaʻbī, 1980
  • Arabic: موسوعة التراث للمملكة العربية السعودية, 1978
  • Arabic: معجم التراث السلاح, romanized: Muʻjam al-turāth al-silāḥ, 1978
  • Arabic: معجم التراث, romanized: Muʻjam al-turāth, 1998
  • Arabic: معجم الأمكنة الوارد ذكرها في صحيح البخاري, romanized: Muʻjam al-amkinah al-wārid dhikruhā fī Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, 1999
  • Arabic: معجم الأماكن الواردة في المعلقات العشر, romanized: Muʻjam al-amākin al-wāridah fī al-Muʻallaqāt al-ʻashr, 2004
  • Arabic: خواطر ونوادر تراثية: نصوص تاريخية وجعرافية واجتماعية, romanized: Khawāṭir wa-nawādir turāthīyah : nuṣūṣ tarīkhīyah wa-jughrāfīyah wa-ijtimāʻīyah
  • Arabic: معجم الأمكنة الوارد ذكرها في القرآن الكريم, romanized: Muʻjam al-amkinah al-wārid dhikrihā fī al-Qurʼān al-karīm, 2003
  • Arabic: بلاد العرب في المعاجم القديمة وبحوث المتأخرين (نقد وتقييم), romanized: Bilād al-ʻArab fī al-maʻājim al-qadīmah wa-buḥūth al-mutaʼakhkhirīn (naqd wa-taqyīm), 2003
  • Arabic: اللباس : لغة – ادب – تاريخ – نقد, romanized: al-Libās : lughah – adab – tārīkh – naqd, 2004

References

Citations

  1. ^ Turki Aldakhil (5 November 2019). "العلامة بن جنيدل.. رحلة التوثيق الشاقة" (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 13 August 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  2. ^ "سيرة «الجنيدل» . . محطات". al-jazirah (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 13 August 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Al-Assaf, Mansur (8 December 2017). "سعد الجنيدل.. عالم البلدانيات والمؤرخ الموسوعي". alriyadh (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 13 August 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  4. ^ a b Hussein 1994, p. 211.
  5. ^ "رحيل الأديب سعد بن جنيدل". Al-Faisal Magazine (361): 128. August 2006.
  6. ^ "الشيخ سعد بن جنيدل .. علاّمة عالية نجد". alriyadh (in Arabic). 25 June 2006. Archived from the original on 13 August 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  7. ^ 24°48′29″N 46°27′56.0″W / 24.80806°N 46.465556°W / 24.80806; -46.465556
  8. ^ "شارع سعد بن عبدالله بن جنيدل". alriyadh (in Arabic). 19 June 2011. Archived from the original on 13 August 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  9. ^ Hussein 1994, p. 212.

Sources

  • Hussein, Mustafa Ibrahim (1994). Udaba' Sa 'udiyun, tarjamat shamilah li-sab 'at wa-'ishrin adiban أدباء سعوديون؛ ترجمات شاملة لسبعة وعشرين أديبًا [Saudi writers:comprehensive biographies of twenty-seven writers] (in Arabic) (first ed.). Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Dar al-Rifa'i. pp. 29–49.
    ISBN 9789960662008
    .

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