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- Country of residence: Russia
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Bandali Saliba Al-Jawzi, "a Russian orientalist _ of Palestinian origins _ linguistic researcher, reference, and a scholar of orientalism and Semitic languages." He was known to the orientalists as Pandali and they considered him, despite his opposition to them, as a fertile reference from their references. He mastered many ancient and modern languages, and his writings in the Russian language are estimated between twenty-six authors. He also left nine manuscripts in Russian and two in Arabic. He also published a large number of articles in Lebanese magazines, such as “Al-Athar” and “The College”, and in Egyptian magazines, such as “Al-Hilal”, “Al-Muqtataf” and “Al-Rabta Al-Sharqiya”. He is considered one of the most important Palestinian and even Arab intellectuals in the twentieth century, both in terms of the depth of his influence. Or in terms of the diversity of his activities, but there are those who consider him one of the ten most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.
his biography
Bandali Saliba Al-Jawzi was born in Jerusalem. his sisters: Mary; Katrina; Helena. His siblings: Qustandi; Saliba.
His wife: Lyudmila Lorenchevna Zueva. His sons: Vladimir; Georgian Boris. daughters: Anastasia; Alexandra; tamara; Olga.
Bandali al-Jawzi received his primary and secondary education at the Orthodox “Deir al-Musallabeh” college in Jerusalem, then continued his studies at a Greek Orthodox boarding school in the village of “Bakftin” located in Koura in northern Lebanon.
In 1891 he obtained a church mission to Russia to complete his study of theological sciences at the Religious Academy in Moscow, but he did not want to continue there, and in 1895 he moved to the Kazan Academy, where in 1899 he obtained a master's degree in Arabic language and Islamic studies, and the subject of his thesis was: «The Mu'tazila Historical Theological Research in Islam.
In 1900, Bandali al-Jawzi returned to Palestine to settle there, but the Ottoman authorities forced him to leave the country and return to Russia, where he worked as an assistant professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at Kazan University.
He visited Palestine and the Levant in 1909 with Russian students as part of a scientific mission for a year to learn the Arabic language, during which he became acquainted with writers such as Isaaf al-Nashashibi, Jamil al-Khalidi, and Khalil al-Sakakini. In Beirut, he also met the Russian orientalist Ignaty Krachkovsky, who devoted his life to researching literature. Arabic.
Bandali al-Jawzi worked between the years 1911 and 1917 as an assistant professor of Arabic language and Islamic history at the Faculty of Law at Kazan University. Then he moved to work in the Faculty of History and Arts at the same university, until 1920.
In 1920, Bandali al-Jawzi traveled with his family to the city of Baku to work at its state university, where he taught Arabic language and literature at the Oriental College, of which he later became its dean.
Bandali al-Jawzi had obtained a doctorate in Arabic literature and Arabic language in 1921. In that year, he visited Iran as part of a scientific mission, as a result of which he brought a large number of Arabic and Persian manuscripts, which he supplied to the university library.
He visited Palestine in 1928, where he gave lectures on history and intellectual movements among Arabs and Muslims. He also participated in the work of the Seventh Palestinian Arab Conference, which was held in June of that year, and was elected a member of the Arab Executive Committee that emerged from it.
In 1930, Bandali al-Jawzi was appointed head of the Arabic department at Baku University. In 1931, the scientific council of this university awarded him an honorary doctorate in Arabic language and literature.
He returned again in 1930 to Palestine to deliver a series of social and philosophical lectures in several Palestinian cities. He also visited Cairo with his two friends, Khalil Al-Sakakini and Adel Jabr, and the people of thought celebrated them.
Bandali al-Jawzi suffered a heart disease in 1932, which prevented him from working until 1937.
In 1938 he headed the Arabic department at the branch of the Academy of Sciences in Baku, and wrote more than fifty articles for the Azerbaijani Encyclopedia. But he was retired after a short period.
Bandali Al-Jawzi died in early 1942 in Baku and was buried there.
of his works in Arabic
From the history of intellectual movements in Islam. Jerusalem: Bayt al-Maqdis Press, 1928, and it was republished and verified by Mahmoud Ismail in Cairo 2006, and it is considered the most famous and widespread of his Arabic books.
Motherhood among the Arabs. Kazan: Dombrawsky Press, 1902. Translation of a book:
Wilkens, G.A. Das Matriarchat (Das Mutterrecht) bei den Alten Arabern. Leipzig: Otto Schulze, 1884
«Princes of Ghassan from the family of Jaffna» (together with Constantine Zureik). Beirut: Catholic Press, 1933. Translation of a book:
Noldeke, Theodor. Die Ghassanischen Fürsten aus dem Hause Gafna's. Berlin: Academy of Wissenschaften, 1887.
in Russian
"The Mu'tazilites: Historical Theological Research in Islam". Kazan, 1899.
Lebanon, its history and present situation. Kazan, 1914.
Muslims in Russia and Their Future: Kazan, 1917.
The Origin of the Christian Population of Syria and Palestine: Kazan, 1917.
Anglo-Egyptian Relations: Baku, 1930.
"Scientific Terminology among Contemporary Arabs". Baku, 1930.
He was an advocate for the human rights of the Palestinian people, and Robert Fisk described him as the most effective voice in defense of the Palestinian cause.
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