Faris al-Shidyaq

Fāris al-Shidyāq was born in Achkout, in Mount Lebanon, into a Maronite family, in 1804 according to the Bibliothèque nationale de France, around 1805 according to others. His brother Asʿad, who had gone over to Protestantism, died in the Maronite monastery where he had been shut away; Fāris in turn converted. He lived in Egypt, taught in Malta, joined Cambridge in 1848 for an Arabic translation of the Bible and became a British subject, then settled in Paris. Converted to Islam in Tunis under the name Ahmad, he ended his life in Istanbul, where he published a weekly in Arabic. He died in 1887 and is buried in Lebanon.

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