Adib Ishaq

Adib Ishaq (Arabic: أديب إسحاق‎, ALA-LC: Adīb Isḥāq; 21 January 1856 – 12 June 1884)[1] was an important literary figure of nineteenth-century Egypt.[2]

Adib Ishaq
Born21 January 1856
Damascus, Ottoman Syria
Died12 June 1884 (aged 28)
Hadath
OccupationJournalist

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.[3] He left school before he was even twelve years old to meet his family's needs by working at the customs house.[4] This experience would make him proficient in Turkish as well.[4] At the age of fifteen, Ishaq joined his father in Beirut to work for the postal office.[4] He later found work in the Beirut customs house, but his passion for writing pushed him towards journalism; he contributed to Al-Taqaddum (Progress).[4] He moved to Egypt in 1876.[4] He became a disciple of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani after meeting him in Cairo.[4]

In 1879, he founded the Parisian journal Misr al-Qahira (Egypt the Victorious) with the help of Abdallah Marrash.[5]

He died at his summer estate in Hadath[6] (in present-day Lebanon).

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).
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