Francis Marrash

* 1836 in Aleppo; ; Francis 'm Fathallah bin Nasrallah Marrash (Arabic فرنسيس بن فتح الله بن نصر الله مراش, DMG Firansīs b Fatḥ Allāh b Nasr Allah Marras, known as Francis al - Marrash or Francis Marrash al -Halabi. . † 1873 ibid ) was a Syrian writer and poet at the time of the Nahda movement.

Life

Francis Marrash was born in 1836 in Aleppo (Ottoman Syria), in an old and respected Melkite family who was known for her literary interests. His father, Fathallah Marrash had created a huge private library to assist with education of his three children, Francis, Abdallah and Maryana (all three were writers ) supported.

Aleppo formed an important literary and philosophical center of the Ottoman Empire, with many thinkers and writers, which dealt with the future of the Arabs. Marrashs children went to French schools and learned there French, English and Italian. Francis was suitable knowledge of Arabic language and literature teaching himself to. For four years, received by an English doctor, he a private education in medicine and then practiced for a year as a doctor.

Francis devoted himself to the education of his sister Maryana. His father and his brother Abdallah Fathallah achieved some literary fame, while Maryana brought the tradition of literary salons back into the Middle East. She was the first woman who wrote articles in the Arab press.

Due to an illness in his childhood he had all his life poor eyesight and became blind later in life fully, so he had to dictate his texts.

Works

  • Dalil al - hurriyya al - insaniyya, Aleppo, 1861, 24 pp.
  • Al - Mirat al - Safiyya fi 'l- mabadi al - tabi'iyya, Aleppo, 1861, 60 pp.
  • Ta'ziyat al - makrub wa - rahat al - mat'ub, Aleppo, 1864
  • Ghabat al - haqq fi tafsil al - Akhlaq wa al - Fadila - addadiha, Aleppo, 1865; Cairo, 1881; Beirut, 1881
  • Rihlat Baris, Beirut, 1867
  • Al - Kunuz al - fanniyya fi 'l- rumuz al - maymuniyya ( poem with almost 500 verses )
  • Mashhad al - Ahwal, Beirut, 1870, 1883
  • Mir'at al - hasna ( collection of poems ), Beirut, 1872, 1883
  • Shahadat al - tabi'a fi wudjud Allah wa'l shari'a, Beirut, 1892 ( posthumously )
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