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    Zaidan, the son of an illiterate qahwaji (or coffeehouse proprietor), was born into the lower classes of Beirut; he was an autodidact and a self-made-man. His father forced him to drop out of elementary school to help him run his business. All of Zaidan’s learning was self-taught apart from two years in elementary school and one year in the medical school of the Syrian Protestant College which later became the American University of Beirut. He adopted middle-class values and his roots gave him a good understanding of his readers. He would credit this social sensitivity (al hassa al ijtimayeyyah) with much of his success as a journalist and writer.

    Zaidan believed that self-realization and personal growth are the responsibility of the individual. He believed that character — will-power, integrity and rectitude — was more important than knowledge, education or heritage for worldly success. He credited his success above all to hard work, time consciousness and perseverance. Entrep

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    Jurji Zaidan, His Life And Thought 3515018425, 9783515018425

    Table of contents :
    Acknowledgements
    Table of Contents
    Part I: An Intellectual Biography
    Introduction
    Gurgi Zaidan, Biographical Sketch
    The Education of Society
    Religion and Politics in Society
    Cultural and National Consciousness
    Conclusions
    Part II: The Autobiography of Gurgi Zaidan
    Introduction to the Autobiography
    The Autobiography of Gurgi Zaidan
    Letters to Emile
    Appendix
    Bibliographical Notes
    Index of Names

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    THOMAS PHILIPP

    G U R G l ZA IDÄ N HIS LIFE AND THOUGHT

    BEIRUTER TEX TE UND STUDIEN HERAUSGEGEBEN VOM O RIENT-INSTITU T OER DEUTSCHEN MORGENLÄNDISCHEN GESELLSCHAFT

    BAND 3

    GURGI ZAIDÄN; HIS LIFE AND THOUGHT /

    BY

    THOM AS PH IL IPP / /

    BEIRU T 1979 IN KOM M ISSION BEI FRANZ STEINER VERLAG • WIESBADEN]

    ISBN 3-515-01842-5 ISSN — 0067-4931 O rient-Institut der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft Beirut/Libanon, B.P. 2968 Mit M itteln des Bundesministers für Forschu

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    Jurji Zaydan

    Lebanese novelist, journalist, editor and teacher

    Jurji Zaydan[a] (Arabic: جرجي زيدان, ALA-LC:Jurjī Zaydān; December 14, 1861 – July 21, 1914) was a prolific Lebanese novelist, journalist, editor and teacher, most noted for his creation of the magazine Al-Hilal, which he used to serialize his twenty three historical novels.

    His primary goal, as a writer and intellectual during the Nahda, was to make the common Arabic population know their own history through the entertaining medium of the novel. He has enjoyed a widespread popularity. He is also considered to have been one of the first thinkers to help formulate the theory of Arab nationalism.[1]

    Early life

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    Jurji Zaydan was born on December 14, 1861, in Beirut to an Eastern Orthodox Christian family of limited means that had probably originated in the Hauran region.[2][3] His father owned a restaurant and, being illiterate and uneducated himself, placed lit

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