خزانة الأيام في ترجمة العظام [Library of the Biography of Luminaries]

Title

خزانة الأيام في ترجمة العظام [Library of the Biography of Luminaries]

Description

خزانة الأيام في تراجم الزمان, contains essays written by Joseph N. Maloof and originally published in the newspaper Al-Ayyam. This collection is comprised of biographical sketches and short histories.

Chapters one and two focus primarily on European and American political leaders. Chapter three includes a short history of Lebanon and biographical sketches of its intellectual and political elites. Chapter 4 provides biographical sketches of Middle Eastern rulers and political elites and few European luminaries like Napoleon and Darwin. Chapter 5 gives an overview of "Syrians and Migration." At the end of the book are a series of advertisements, mainly from New York City merchants.

This book has been made fully searchable in Arabic OCR thanks to the American University of Beirut.

Publisher

Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies

Date

Rights

Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).

Format

Text/pdf

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Text

Coverage

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New York City, New York

Alternative Title

Khizanat al-Ayyam fi Tarajim al-'Izzam

Provenance

Philip Hitti

Files

Maloof_1899_Bio of Luminaries_OCR_wm.pdf

Citation

Joseph Nimaan Maloof, يوسف نعمان معلوف, and Jaridat Al-Ayyam Press, “خزانة الأيام في ترجمة العظام [Library of the Biography of Luminaries],” Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies Archive, accessed September 29, 2023, https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/items/show/13910.