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Adib Ishaq
Born	21 January 1856 Damascus, Ottoman Syria
Died	12 June 1884 (aged 28) al-Hadath
Occupation	Journalist

Adib Ishaq (Arabic: اديب اسحق, ALA-LC: Adīb Isḥāq; 21 January 1856 – 12 June 1885) was an important Syrian literary figure of nineteenth-century Arab Nahda.

Born in Damascus (then a city of the Ottoman Empire, and the present-day capital of Syria), he was enrolled at a Lazarists' school, where he studied Arabic and French. He left school before he was even twelve years old to meet his family's needs by working at the customs house. This experience would make him proficient in Turkish as well. At the age of fifteen, Ishaq joined his father in Beirut to work for the postal office. He later found work in the Beirut customs house, but his passion for writing pushed him towards journalism; he contributed to Al-Taqaddum (Progress). He moved to Egypt in 1876. He became a disciple of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani after meeting him in Cairo.

In 1879, he founded the Parisian journal Misr al-Qahira (Egypt the Victorious) with the help of Abdallah Marrash.

He died at his summer estate in al-Hadath (in present-day Lebanon). A collection of his works in Arabic was published under the title Al-Durar (The Pearls) by Jirjis Mikha'il Nahhas in Alexandria in 1886; another edition of Al-Durar, edited by Adib's brother Awni, was published in Beirut in 1909.

References

1. Khayati, pp. 138 & 142.
2. Aux origines des relations culturelles contemporaines entre la France et le monde arabe.
3. Khayati, p. 138.
4. ^ Khayati, p. 139.
5. Génériques 1990, p. 121; Ayalon 1995, p. 44.
6. Khayati, p. 142.

Sources

• Fakkar, Rouchdi; Fakkār, Rushdī (1972). Aux origines des relations culturelles contemporaines entre la France et le monde arabe (in French). ISBN 9782705316815.
• Ayalon, Ami (1995). The Press in the Arab Middle East: A History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195087802.
• Génériques (1990). Presse et mémoire : France des étrangers, France des libertés (in French). Éditions de l'Atelier. ISBN 978-2908833003.
• Khayati, Mustapha. "Un disciple libre penseur de Al-Afghani : Adib Ishaq". Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée (in French).

External links

• [REDACTED] Media related to Adib Ishaq at Wikimedia Commons
• Al-Durar at Open Library

• 19th-century Syrian writers
• 1856 births
• 1884 deaths
• Syrian magazine founders
• Writers from Damascus
• Writers from the Ottoman Empire