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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...
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  • Nahda (redirect from Al-nahda)
    Arabic literature; he wrote most of his fiction in his younger years. Butrus al-Bustani (1819–1893) was born to a Lebanese Maronite Christian family in the...
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    Salim Al Bustani (1848–1884) was a Lebanese journalist, novelist and political figure who edited many publications with his father Butrus. He is known...
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    renaissance of the late 19th century known as Nahda. A nephew of Butrus al-Bustani, he was famous for translating Homer's Iliad into Arabic, introducing...
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    corrected a translation that Eli Smith, an American missionary, and Butrus al-Bustani started in 1847. After that, he taught at the Syrian Protestant College...
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  • established in Beirut by Butrus al-Bustani and active between 1870 and 1886. Its first issue appeared in January 1870. Written largely by Butrus' son Salim who...
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  • ومطلب), often simply referred to as Dāʼirat al-Maʻārif, was an Arabic encyclopedia published by Butrus al-Bustani in 1875. It is considered the first modern...
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  • writer and scholar Butrus Bustani. She is known to be the "wife and mother of the Nahda (awakening) movement" which was developed by Bustani. Ata played a...
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    (1987). al-Shiʿr wa-al-shuʿarāʾ (in Arabic). Beirut: Dār ʾAḥyāʾ al-ʿUlūm. p. 218. "Asha". The Great Soviet Encyclopedia. 1979. Butrus al-Bustānī (1968)...
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    Hejaz (redirect from Al-Hejaz)
    2500–3000 BCE. According to Al-Masudi the northern part of Hejaz was a dependency of ancient Israel , and according to Butrus al-Bustani the Jews in Hejaz established...
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