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Bandali Saliba al-Jawzi, “a Russian orientalist of Palestinian origin, a linguistic researcher, reference and scholar of Orientalism and Semitic languages.” He was known to orientalists as Pandali and considered him, despite his opposition to them, a fertile reference from their references. He has mastered many ancient and modern languages, and his works in Russian are estimated between subject and transmitted by twenty-six authors, as well as leaving nine manuscripts in Russian and two manuscripts in Arabic. He also published a large number of articles in Lebanese magazines, such as "Al-Athar" and "Al-Kolaya", and in Egyptian magazines, such as "Al-Hilal", "Al-Muqtaf" and "The Eastern League". 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 in the twentieth century.
his biography
Bandali Saliba al-Jawzi was born in Jerusalem. His sisters: Mary; Katrina; Helena. his siblings: Constanti; a cross.
His wife: Lyudmila Lorenshitevna Zueva. His children: Vladimir; Georgian; Boris. His daughters: Anastasia; Alexandra; Tamara; Olga.
Bandali al-Jawzi received his primary and secondary education at the Orthodox College of Deir al-Maslaba in Jerusalem, then continued his studies at a Greek Orthodox boarding school in the village of Bikftin, located in Koura in northern Lebanon.
In 1891 he received a church mission to Russia to complete the 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: 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 in the framework of a scientific mission for a year to learn the Arabic language, during which he got acquainted with writers such as Isaf Al-Nashashibi, Jamil Al-Khalidi and Khalil Sakakini. Arabic.
Bandali Al-Jawzi worked between 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 Baku to work at its state university, where he taught Arabic language and literature at the Oriental College, which he became its dean after a while.
In 1921, Bandali al-Jawzi obtained a doctorate in Arabic literature and the Arabic language. 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 provided to the university library.
He visited Palestine in 1928, where he gave lectures on the history and intellectual movements of 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 as 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 a doctorate with honors in Arabic language and literature.
He returned again in 1930 to Palestine to give a series of social and philosophical lectures in several Palestinian cities. He also visited Cairo with his friends Khalil Sakakini and Adel Gabr, where intellectuals celebrated them.
In 1932, Bandali al-Jawzi suffered from a heart disease that prevented him from working until 1937.
In 1938 he headed the Arabic department of the branch of the Academy of Sciences in Baku. He wrote more than fifty articles for the Azerbaijani Encyclopedia. But he was retired after a short time.
Bandali al-Jawzi died in early 1942 in Baku and was buried there.
From his effects in Arabic
From the history of intellectual movements in Islam. Jerusalem: Bait Al-Maqdis Press, 1928, and republished and verified by Mahmoud Ismail in Cairo 2006. It is considered his most famous and widely distributed Arabic book.
Motherhood among the Arabs. Kazan: Dombrowski Press, 1902. Book translation:
Wilkens, G.A. Das Matriarchat (Das Mutterrecht) bei den Alten Arabern. Leipzig: Otto Schulze, 1884
«Princes of Ghassan from the Jafna family» (in association with Constantine Zureik). Beirut: The Catholic Press, 1933. A translation of a book:
Nöldeke, Theodor. Die Ghassanischen Fürsten aus dem Hause Gafna's. Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1887.
in Russian
The Mu'tazila: 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 of Contemporary Arabs. Baku, 1930.
He was a defender of the human rights of the Palestinian people, and was described by Robert Fisk as the most effective voice in defending the Palestinian cause.
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