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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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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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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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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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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(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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