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Boutros Abu Manna (Ramla, July 1932 - Haifa, December 25, 2018) is a Palestinian historian and lecturer, one of the vanguard historians of the late Ottoman period in Palestine. Arabic, Hebrew, English, Turkish and German.
Abu Manna specialized in Ottoman history in general, and the history of Jerusalem and its leaders in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in particular, in addition to publishing several studies related to the Ottoman Sufi orders and their impact on the crystallization of Ottoman rule and society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
In 2011, the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut honored him by publishing the book “Historical Articles”, prepared and edited by Johnny Mansour, Mustafa Al-Abbasi and Abdullah Qopti, and it contained thirteen articles written by research historians from his friends and students.
His father, who worked as a postal employee, died when Boutros was six years old, so the mother was forced to move with her children, Boutros and two younger brothers, to the city of Lod to join her family, known as the Al-Munir family, where he finished his primary studies, and then studied at the Arab College in Jerusalem, and then at the Amiriya High School. in Jaffa.
After the occupation of Lydda, the family of Abu Manna - the mother, Peter and his two brothers - gathered in a temporary camp set up by the Israeli army in preparation for their expulsion towards Ramallah on foot. On July 11, 1948, the Zionist forces committed a massacre in the city of Lod, killing more than 250 people, and expelling tens of thousands of residents of the cities of Lod and Ramle.
After finishing high school, he worked for three years as a teacher at the Lydda School. In 1953, he took his high school exam, and for his excellency, he won a scholarship at the Hebrew University of West Jerusalem, where he studied Middle Eastern history and general history. Also, after completing his master's degree in Middle Eastern history, he received a scholarship from Oxford University for a Ph.D., whose thesis was supervised by Professor Albert Hourani. With the completion of his studies at Oxford University and his return home in 1971, Boutros Abu Manna began teaching in the Department of Middle Eastern History at the University of Haifa, and later headed the department, and continued to work until he retired in 2000.
In 2001, he published a book in English, Studies in Islam and the Ottoman Empire in the Nineteenth Century, published by Isis Publishing House in Istanbul.
He died in Haifa, where he lived most of his life, on December 25, 2018.
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