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Butrus al-Bustani

1819 - 1883

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Butrus al-Bustani (Arabic: بُطرُس الْبُسْتَانِيّ, ALA-LC: Buṭrus al-Bustānī; 1819–1883) was a writer and scholar from present day Lebanon. He was a major figure in the Nahda, which began in Egypt in the late 19th century and spread to the Middle East. He is considered to be the first Syrian nationalist, due to his publication of Nafir Suriyya which began following the 1860 Mount Lebanon civil war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Butrus al-Bustani has received more than 97,222 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Butrus al-Bustani is the 3,186th most popular writer (up from 3,491st in 2019), the 86th most popular biography from Lebanon (down from 81st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Lebanese Writer.

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Notable Works

Muhit-ul-muhit
1987
The Clarion of Syria
History, Syria, history
When ?The Clarion of Syria? was penned, between September 1860 and April 1861, its anonymous author?identified only as ?a patriot??had just witnessed his homeland undergo unprecedented violence in what many today consider Lebanon?s first civil war. Butrus al-Bustani, the author, wrote a series of pamphlets to his fellow Syrians that became a key text of the nineteenth-century literary revival movement known as the Nahda. They addressed an array of universally resonant and locally relevant themes that render the pamphlets pertinent beyond their immediate context. With a style oscillating between Paulinian sermon and Socratic dialogue, the author ponders the meaning of civil war in relation to religion, politics, morality, society, and civilization. Above all, the text was an anti-sectarian clarion call to build a cohesive and ?civilized? Syrian society in place of what the author considered a community gripped by the most pernicious of conflicts, violent fanaticism and factionalism. Rereading the pamphlets in the context of today?s political violence in war-torn Syria and elsewhere in the Arab world helps us gain a critical and historical perspective on (anti-)sectarianism, conflict resolution, Western interventionism, and national reconciliation. This translation thereby makes an important historical document accessible for the first time to an English audience.
Fī al-muʻjamīyah al-ʻArabīyah al-muʻāṣirah
Arabic language, Congresses, Lexicography
1987
Muhīt al-muhīt
Dictionaries, Arabic language
1987
Muḥīṭ al-muḥīṭ
Dictionaries, Arabic language
1977
Kitab dā'irat al-ma'arif
Arabic Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic
1876

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Butrus al-Bustani ranks 3,186 out of 7,302. Before him are Karel Kryl, Leone Ginzburg, Lasus of Hermione, Robert de Nola, Viktor Dyk, and Ozaki Kōyō. After him are Vladislav Vančura, Philips of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde, Ildefonso Falcones, Naoya Shiga, Stefanie Zweig, and Sigurd Hoel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Butrus al-Bustani ranks 62. Before him are Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, Panteleimon Kulish, Charles Kingsley, Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Edwin Drake, and Pieter Bleeker. After him are Maria Wodzińska, Cyrus West Field, Lucile Grahn, Abe Masahiro, Nicolae Bălcescu, and Alexandru G. Golescu. Among people deceased in 1883, Butrus al-Bustani ranks 50. Before him are Dục Đức, Auguste Clésinger, Reinhart Dozy, Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse, Hiệp Hòa, and Yevfimiy Putyatin. After him are Robert Volkmann, Francesco de Sanctis, Mahmud Nedim Pasha, Heinrich von Ferstel, Oswald Heer, and Alexander H. Stephens.

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In Lebanon

Among people born in Lebanon, Butrus al-Bustani ranks 86 out of 145. Before him are Georgina Rizk (1953), Antoun Saadeh (1904), Haifa Wehbe (1976), Mika (1983), Bashir Shihab II (1767), and Nancy Ajram (1983). After him are Fayza Ahmed (1934), Tigran Mansurian (1939), Rashid Karami (1921), Ardem Patapoutian (1967), Steve Kerr (1965), and Charles Malik (1906).

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Among WRITERS In Lebanon

Among writers born in Lebanon, Butrus al-Bustani ranks 7. Before him are Khalil Gibran (1883), Amin Maalouf (1949), Antipater of Sidon (-200), Mikha'il Na'ima (1889), Philo of Byblos (64), and Etel Adnan (1925). After him are Charles Malik (1906), Said Akl (1911), Elias Khoury (1948), Sanchuniathon (-150), Wajdi Mouawad (1968), and Hanan al-Shaykh (1945).

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