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Jurji Zaydan [a] (Arabic: جرجي زيدان, ALA-LC: Jurjī Zaydān; December 14, 1861 – July 21, 1914) was a prolific Lebanese novelist, journalist, editor and teacher, most noted for his creation of the magazine Al-Hilal, which he used to serialize his twenty three historical novels.
Jurji Zaidan was a pillar of the intellectual movement known as the Nahda (or Renaissance), which laid the foundations for a secular pan-Arab national identity.
Two important works on Zaidan’s contributions in English — Thomas Philipp’s “Gurgi Zaidan, His Life and Thought”; and “Contributions to Modern Arab Thought and Literature” which incorporates a large number of papers by eminent scholars delivered at the Jurji Zaidan Symposium at the Library of Congress in June 2012.
Jun 5, 2012 · the longest-lived and still functional cultural journal in the Arab World. Let me start with a brief overview of Zaidan and his times. It was a remarkable. period of change and transformation ...
Jurji Zaydan (1861–1914) was one of the most important Arab writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He founded Al-Hilal, the foremost cultural and literary journal in the Arab world.
Jurji Zaidan (1861–1914) was a prolific writer whose objective was to inform and educate his Arab contemporaries about the modern world, their shared past, and their national identity. He is considered to be one of the intellectual leaders who laid the foundation for a pan-Arab secular national identity.
In the decades after Darwin, Zaydan was inspired by the theory of evolution to view language as a living organism, subject to the laws of evolution. He studied the beginnings of speech in ancient Arab communities, and the gradual evolution of these initial words into a structured language with rules and meanings.
Aug 5, 2016 · The 1890s witnessed one of the most intriguing phenomena of modern Egyptian cultural history – the publication of the first of Jurji [Jirji] Zaydan's historical novels, of which he produced some twenty-two in total between 1891 and 1914.
Dec 19, 2019 · This chapter provides an overview of the significance of Jurji Zaydan (1861–1914) as a figure of the Arab Nahda (“renaissance”) and more broadly as both theorist of and contributor to the position of Arabic literature within what is increasingly termed “world literature.”
Abstract. SUMMARYThis article explores Jurji Zaydan's contribution to questions that the Arabic language was confronted with at the turn of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.
