Introduction
Born: March 25, 1800, Kfarshima, Lebanon.
Died: February 8, 1871, Beirut, Lebanon.
Born: March 25, 1800, Kfarshima, Lebanon.
Died: February 8, 1871, Beirut, Lebanon.
Al-Yāzijī was a Lebanese author during the Ottoman Empire. A Greek Catholic, he moved to Beirut in 1840 and became an Arabic tutor. This brought him into contact with American and British Protestant missionaries, whom he helped translate the Bible into Arabic. Subsequently, he taught at the Syrian Protestant College (later renamed the American University of Beirut) and wrote on poetry, rhetoric, grammar and philosophy.
If you know Yāzijī’s burial place,