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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Boutros (redirect from Butrus)
    Patriarch of the Syrian Catholic Church Butrus al-Bustani (1818–1883), Lebanese writer and scholar Boutros Al-Hallaq (born 1966), Syrian politician Boutros...
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    opposition and the Islamic State. In the mid-nineteenth century, Butrus al-Bustani was one of the first to assert the existence of a natural Syrian nation...
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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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    about the 7th-century Arabic poet Qays ibn al-Mulawwah and his lover Layla bint Mahdi (later known as Layla al-Aamiriya). "The Layla-Majnun theme passed...
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