Marjana Marrasch

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Marjana Marrasch.

Marjana bint Fathallah bin Nasrallah Marrasch ( Arabic مريانا بنت فتح الله بن نصر الله مرّاش, DMG Maryānā b. Fatḥ Allaah b. Naṣr Allāh Marrāš ; * 1848 in Aleppo ; † 1919 ibid), also known as Marjana al-Marrasch , was a Syrian writer and poet at the time of the Nahda , the Arab Renaissance.

Life

Marjana Marrasch was born in Aleppo ( Ottoman Syria ) in 1848 to an old and respected Melkite family who were known for their literary interests. Her father, Fathallah Marrasch, had an extensive private library that helped him raise his three children, Fransis , Abdallah and Marjana (all three became writers).

Marjana Marrasch began writing articles for magazines as early as 1870. In 1893 Marjana Marrasch published her volume of poetry Bint fikr .

Bint fikr .

She kept a parlor.

Works

  • Bint fikr , 1893.
  • [Tārīḫ] [Sūriyā] al-ḥadīṯ .

items

  • “Šāmāt al-ğinān”, al-Ğinān , 1870.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wielandt (1992), Fransis Fathallah Marrasch's approach to the ideas of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution , p. 119; Zeidan (1995), Arab Women Novelists: the Formative Years and Beyond , p. 50.
  2. ^ Zeidan (1995), Arab Women Novelists: the Formative Years and Beyond , p. 50; Wielandt (1992), Fransis Fathallah Marrasch's approach to the ideas of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution , p. 122.
  3. ↑ Halevi & Zachs, Gendering Culture in Greater Syria: Intellectuals and Ideology in the Late Ottoman Period (2015), p. 172; Harem Histories: Envisioning Places and Living Spaces (2010), p. 227; Quaderni di studi arabi , Volume 18: Literary Innovation in Modern Arabic Literature (2000), p. 43; Zeidan, Arab Women Novelists: the Formative Years and Beyond (1995), 50.
  4. ^ Zeidan, Arab Women Novelists: the Formative Years and Beyond (1995), p. 284.
  5. ↑ Harem Histories: Envisioning Places and Living Spaces (2010), p. 227.
  6. ^ Arab Women Writers: a Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999 (2008), p. 440.
personal data
SURNAME Marrasch, Marjana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marrasch, Marjana bint Fathallah bin Nasrallah (full name); Marjana al-March; مريانا بنت فتح الله بن نصر الله مرّاش (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Syrian writer and poet at the time of the Nahda
DATE OF BIRTH 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Aleppo
DATE OF DEATH 1919
Place of death Aleppo