Sulayman al-Bustani
Sulaiman al-Bustani (born May 22, 1856 in Bkashtin , † June 1, 1925 in New York City ) was a Christian-Arab poet, historian and minister of the Ottoman Empire .
Sulaiman al-Bustani was born in what is now the Lebanese Chouf area as the son of a Maronite family. He was the nephew of the writer Butrus al-Bustani . From 1863 to 1871 he received his training in the al-Madrasa al-wataniyya of Beirut and wrote writings in Ottoman , French , Arabic and English . He wrote his first encyclopedia in Arabic under the title Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif .
In the Second Constitutional Period from 1908 he was in Beirut for the Lower House of Parliament elected . In 1911 he became a member of the Ottoman Senate. Appointed Minister of Commerce and Agriculture on June 4, 1913, Sulaiman al-Bustani held the office until October 23, 1914. After the ruling Committee for Unity and Progress reached an agreement to enter the war on the side at the beginning of the First World War Germany entered, al-Bustani left the government and went into exile in Switzerland.
Sulaiman al-Bustani was the first of the Iliad of Homer translated into Arabic. He wrote an Arabic history book under the name Tārīch al-ʿArab . He also advocated that Ottoman Turkish should be a common language throughout the Ottoman Empire and advocated this in his writings. Sulaiman al-Bustani died in New York on June 1, 1925.
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.answers.com
- ↑ Julie Scott Meisami, Julie Scott Meisami, Paul Starkey: Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature. Volume 1, Routledge, London 1998, ISBN 0-415-06808-8 , pp. 164f.
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| SURNAME | Bustani, Sulaiman al- |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bustânî, Suleyman bin Hattâr |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ottoman statesman and poet of Christian faith |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bkashtin |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 1925 |
| Place of death | New York City |