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Nabih bin Amin Faris (1324 - 1387 AH / 1906 - 1968 AD) was an Arab historian and thinker.
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Born in Nazareth to a family originally from Bhamdoun. He received his high school education at Bishop Jobat School in Jerusalem. He graduated from the Syrian Protestant College (which later became known as the American University of Beirut) with a BA in Arts and History in 1928 AD, and obtained a PhD in Oriental Languages and Literature from the School of Theology at Princeton University in 1935 AD, and he remained there as a teacher and curator of Arabic manuscripts in Her library to the year 1945 AD.
Then he moved to New York to serve as head of the Office of War Information. He then returned to Beirut as a visiting professor of Islamic history at the American University, then headed the history department there from 1947 until his death in 1968.
During his life, he collected a valuable library that his family gave after his death to the American University of Beirut.
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He is one of the founding thinkers of Arab national thought through his books, the most important of which are Arab Studies and Arabs in History. Among his works: translating “The History of the Islamic Peoples” by Brockelmann, translating it into Arabic in collaboration with Mounir Al-Baalbaki. In his evaluation of the first part of the translation, Abd al-Rahman Badawi said that it is “excellent, with care and effort.”
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The Arabs in History.
Arab Studies.
From the Arab angle.
Cataloging the Arabic Manuscripts at Princeton University.
Al-Adiyat in Southern Arabia.
"Arab Heritage". in english
Living Arabs.
Arabian clouds.
His works were collected and published under the title “The Complete Works of Dr. Nabih Amin Fares” by the Center for Arab Unity Studies, Beirut, 2008 AD.
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