Jurji Zaydan

Jurji Zaydan was born on 14 December 1861 in Beirut; his father, who was illiterate, ran a small restaurant. Having entered the Syrian Protestant College to study medicine in 1881, he left the institution after the conflict of 1882 arising from the dismissal of a professor, and went to Egypt. In 1886, he worked in London at the library of the British Museum. In 1892 he founded the review al-Hilāl in Cairo, published a history of Islamic civilisation in five volumes and a history of Arabic literature in four, and died in Cairo on 21 July 1914.

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• NovelThe Caliph's Sisterالعباسة أخت الرشيدJurji Zaydan · 1906LiteraturePublic domain