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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.
Buṭrus al-Bustānī was a scholar whose works, notably an Arabic dictionary and the first six volumes of an Arabic encyclopaedia, played a significant role in revitalizing the Arabic culture of his time.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The dissertation examines the foundations of modern Arab national thought in nineteenth-century works of Butrus al Bustani (1819-1883) and Ahmad Faris al Shidyaq (1804-1887) in which occurred an intersection of language-making practices and a national pedagogic project.
- Stephen Sheehi
Buṭrus (Teacher Buṭrus). He was a writer, encyclopedic author, educator and historian as well as the first to establish a distinguished secondary national school, the first to establish an esteemed magazine, the first to have collated a modern expanded Arabic dictionary and the first to launch an encyclopedic pr.
Learn about the life and legacy of Butrus al-Bustani, a key figure of nineteenth-century Nahda. Explore his conversion to Protestantism, his intellectual partnership with Eli Smith, and his role in the Arabic printing and education movements.
Jun 28, 2010 · This article attempts to understand Butrus al-Bustani's Nafir Suriyya as a foundational text in the creation of a new discourse of modern Arab subjectivity. More specifically, the study examines the epistemology that circumscribes al-Bustani's conception of the modern Syro-Lebanese Arab citizen.
Jun 6, 2019 · Buṭrus al-Bustānī (1819–1883) was one of the leading figures of the Nahḍa period. In most studies on the Nahḍa, his activities, work and projects are seen as having made an important contribution to the revival of the Arabic language by transforming it to meet the needs of modern times.
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