Kamal Salibi

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Kamal Salibi : biography

2 May 1929 – 1 September 2011

Kamal Suleiman Salibi () (2 May 19291 September 2011) ilouban,com, September 1, 2011.Brooke Anderson,’ The Daily Star, September 1, 2011. was a Lebanese historian, professor of history at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and the founding Director (later Honorary President) of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies in Amman, Jordan. He was a lifetime bachelor, who devoted his life to books.Rabinowitz, Itamar, ‘,’ in Haaretz, 29 September, 2011

Other references

  • Biella, Joan (2004) Dictionary of Old South Arabian – Sabaean Dialect Eisenbrauns, Winola Lake, Indiana, USA
  • Hubbard, David (1956) The Literary Sources of the Kebra Nagast Ph.D. dissertation.,St.Andrews University, Scotland
  • Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Ge’ez Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, Germany
  • Rabin, Chaim (1951) Ancient West Arabian London: Taylor’s Foreign Press
  • Savoie, Denis (2009), Sundials: Design, Construction, and Use Springer Praxis, ISBN 978-0-387-09801-2 (see pp. 163-164)
  • Schneider, Roger (1973) Deux inscriptions subarabiques du Tigre. Leiden, Netherlands: Bibliotheca Orientalis, 30, 1973, 385-387
  • Ullendorff, Edward (1956) Hebraic Jewish Elements in Abyssinian (Monophysite) Christianity in Journal of Semitic Studies, 1, no.3, 216-256
  • Ullendorff, Edward (1960) The Ethiopians London: Oxford University Press
  • Ullendorff, Edward (1968) Ethiopia and the Bible London: Oxford University Press

Category:1929 births Category:2011 deaths Category:Alumni of SOAS, University of London Category:American University of Beirut alumni Category:Historians of the Middle East Category:Lebanese historians Category:Lebanese Protestants Category:Lebanese writers Category:People from Beirut Category:Disease-related deaths in Lebanon

Works

  • Maronite Historians of Mediaeval Lebanon, Beirut, AUB Oriental Series 34, 1959
  • The Modern History of Lebanon, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1965
  • Crossroads to Civil War, Lebanon 1958-1976, Beirut, Caravan Books, 1976
  • Syria under Islam: Empire on Trial 634-1097, Beirut, Caravan Books, 1977
  • A History of Arabia, Beirut, Caravan Books, 1980
  • The Bible Came from Arabia, London, Jonathan Cape, 1985
  • Secrets of the Bible People, London, Saqi Books, 1988
  • , London, I.B. Tauris, 1988
  • , London, I.B. Tauris, 1988
  • The Historicity of Biblical Israel, London, NABU Publications, 1998
  • The Historicity of Biblical Israel (second edition), Beirut, Dar Nelson, 2009
  • The Modern History of Jordan, London, I.B. Tauris, 1993
  • A Bird on an Oak Tree" (Arabic طائر على سنديانة), Amman, Ashshoroq Publishers, 2002

Notes

  • Anderson, Brooke ‘ The Daily Star, September 1, 2011
  • Beeston, A.F.L., Review of "The Bible Came from Arabia", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1988, pp. 389–93)
  • Berry, Steve. “The Alexandria Link” Hodder & Stoughton, 2007; fiction. A thriller using Salibi’s theory as a plot device.
  • Cardinal, P., "La Bible et L’Arabie", Revue d’études Palestiniennes vol. 7 No. 26 (winter 1988) pp. 63–70
  • Dahlberg, Bruce, Comments in the Ancient Near East Digest, 1994.
  • Parfitt, Tudor, “The hijacking of Israel”, The Sunday Times (London) 27 October 1985
  • Rabinowitz, Itamar, ‘,’ in Haaretz, 29 September, 2011.
  • Salamé-Sarkis, H., "Et si la Bible venait d’Arabie?", Berytus, Beirut 1985 XXXIII pp. 143–165
  • Sbaiti, Nadya and Mikdashi, Maya, ‘,’ in Jadaliyya, September 6, 2011
  • Segev, Tom, in Haaretz 16 September 2011.
  • Towner, W. Sibley, Review of "The Bible Came from Arabia", Middle East Journal 1988, 42 pp. 511–513