Abd al-Masih al-Antaki | |
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عبد المسيح الأنطاكي | |
![]() Antaki in 1907 | |
Born | 1874
[1] |
Died | 1923 (aged 48–49)
[1] |
Occupation | journalist |
Abd al-Masih bin Fath Allah al-Antaki ( Arabic: عبد المسيح بن فتح الله الأنطاكي ALA-LC: ʻAbd al-Masīḥ bin Fatḥ Allāh al-Anṭākī; 1874 [1]–1923 [1]), also referred to as Abd al-Masih Antaki Bey al-Halabi [a], was a Syrian intellectual, journalist and political activist [2] of the late Nahda (Arab renaissance). He founded periodicals in Aleppo and in Cairo.
Abd al-Masih al-Antaki was born in Aleppo, Ottoman Syria, [1] to a prominent middle-class Aleppine family. [3] He was Eastern Orthodox. [4] He went to university in France then returned to Aleppo. [3]
In 1897, Antaki founded the magazine Ash-Shudhūr (الشذور 'The Fragments') in Aleppo. [3] It appeared twenty years after an earlier Aleppine magazine, Ash-Shahbāʼ (الشهباء 'The Gray [nickname of Aleppo]'). [5] According to Reilly, "like al-Shahba its tone was didactic, but Antaki (unlike al-Shahba) saw modern Europe and particularly France as a model for an idealized concept of modernity – middle class, 'rational,' and largely free of internal contradictions and tensions. [5] Quoting Keith David Watenpaugh, Antaki advocated in his essays "a 'scientific' approach to household management and encouraged the systematic education of women and girls in home economics." [6] According to Watenpaugh, "a recurrent theme in al-Antaki's essays and those he digested from other Arabic publications and European literature is the clear valuation of things Western as inherently superior." [6]
Quoting Philipp, Antaki was "involved in Damascus in the fight for the appointment of an Arabic-speaking Patriarch for the Greek Orthodox community there." [7]
Antaki later relocated to Cairo, where journalists were less at risk of being censored. [8] There, he started the periodical Al-ʻUmrān (العمران) in 1902. [9]
Antaki revised and prefaced an edition of Francis Marrash's Ghabat al-haqq which was printed in Cairo in 1922. [10]
Antaki died in Egypt. [1]
Abd al-Masih al-Antaki | |
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عبد المسيح الأنطاكي | |
![]() Antaki in 1907 | |
Born | 1874
[1] |
Died | 1923 (aged 48–49)
[1] |
Occupation | journalist |
Abd al-Masih bin Fath Allah al-Antaki ( Arabic: عبد المسيح بن فتح الله الأنطاكي ALA-LC: ʻAbd al-Masīḥ bin Fatḥ Allāh al-Anṭākī; 1874 [1]–1923 [1]), also referred to as Abd al-Masih Antaki Bey al-Halabi [a], was a Syrian intellectual, journalist and political activist [2] of the late Nahda (Arab renaissance). He founded periodicals in Aleppo and in Cairo.
Abd al-Masih al-Antaki was born in Aleppo, Ottoman Syria, [1] to a prominent middle-class Aleppine family. [3] He was Eastern Orthodox. [4] He went to university in France then returned to Aleppo. [3]
In 1897, Antaki founded the magazine Ash-Shudhūr (الشذور 'The Fragments') in Aleppo. [3] It appeared twenty years after an earlier Aleppine magazine, Ash-Shahbāʼ (الشهباء 'The Gray [nickname of Aleppo]'). [5] According to Reilly, "like al-Shahba its tone was didactic, but Antaki (unlike al-Shahba) saw modern Europe and particularly France as a model for an idealized concept of modernity – middle class, 'rational,' and largely free of internal contradictions and tensions. [5] Quoting Keith David Watenpaugh, Antaki advocated in his essays "a 'scientific' approach to household management and encouraged the systematic education of women and girls in home economics." [6] According to Watenpaugh, "a recurrent theme in al-Antaki's essays and those he digested from other Arabic publications and European literature is the clear valuation of things Western as inherently superior." [6]
Quoting Philipp, Antaki was "involved in Damascus in the fight for the appointment of an Arabic-speaking Patriarch for the Greek Orthodox community there." [7]
Antaki later relocated to Cairo, where journalists were less at risk of being censored. [8] There, he started the periodical Al-ʻUmrān (العمران) in 1902. [9]
Antaki revised and prefaced an edition of Francis Marrash's Ghabat al-haqq which was printed in Cairo in 1922. [10]
Antaki died in Egypt. [1]