Kamal Suleiman Salibi (Arab: كمال سليمان الصليبي) (2 Mei 1929 – 1 September 2011)[1][2] adalah seorang sejarawan Lebanon, profesor sejarah di Universitas Amerika Beirut (AUB) dan Direktur Pendiri (kemudian Presiden Kehormatan) Institut Pembelajaran Antar-Keyakinan Kerajaan di Amman, Yordania.[3] Ia merupakan seorang sarjana seumur hidup, yang mengiprahkan hidupnya ke dalam buku-buku.[4]

Profesor
Kamal Salibi
Salibi pada April 2009
LahirKamal Suleiman Salibi
(1929-05-02)2 Mei 1929
Beirut, Lebanon
Meninggal1 September 2011(2011-09-01) (umur 82)
Beirut, Lebanon
KebangsaanLebanon
PekerjaanSejarawan, akademisi, peneliti

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Lahir dari sebuah keluarga Protestan di Beirut,[5] keluarga Salibi berasal dari desa Lebanon Bhamdoun di Lebanon Mandat Prancis. Setelah belajar di sekolah misionaris Prancis di Bhamdoun dan Broummana,[6] ia menyelesaikan pendidikan menengahnya di Prep School di Beirut (sekarang International College), dan gelar BA-nya dalam bidang Ilmu Pengetahuan Sejarah dan Politik dari AUB, sebelum berpindah ke Sekolah Pembelajaran Dunia Timur dan Afrika, SOAS (Universitas London) dimana ia mendapatkan gelar PhD-nya dalam bidang sejarah pada 1953 dibawah bimbingan sejarawan Bernard Lewis.[7] Disertasinya kemudian diterbitkan dengan judul Maronite Historians of Mediaeval Lebanon.[8]

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  • Maronite Historians of Mediaeval Lebanon, Beirut, AUB Oriental Series 34, 1959
  • The Modern History of Lebanon, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1965
  • Crossroads to Civil War, Lebanon 1958-1976, Beirut, Caravan Books, 1976
  • Syria under Islam: Empire on Trial 634-1097, Beirut, Caravan Books, 1977
  • A History of Arabia, Beirut, Caravan Books, 1980
  • The Bible Came from Arabia, London, Jonathan Cape, 1985
  • Secrets of the Bible People, London, Saqi Books, 1988
  • Who Was Jesus?: Conspiracy in Jerusalem, London, I.B. Tauris, 1988
  • A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered, London, I.B. Tauris, 1988
  • The Historicity of Biblical Israel, London, NABU Publications, 1998
  • The Historicity of Biblical Israel (edisi kedua), Beirut, Dar Nelson, 2009
  • The Modern History of Jordan, London, I.B. Tauris, 1993
  • A Bird on an Oak Tree (Arabic طائر على سنديانة), Amman, Ashshoroq Publishers, 2002

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  1. ^ Lebanese historian Salibi died at 82 ilouban,com, 1 September 2011.
  2. ^ Brooke Anderson,Friends remember Lebanese historian for his generosity and storytelling,' The Daily Star, 1 September 2011.
  3. ^ Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies
  4. ^ Rabinowitz, Itamar, 'Eulogy for a Lebanese intellectual:On the death of historian Kamal Salibi,' in Haaretz, 29 September 2011
  5. ^ Tom Segev, The Makings of History/Myths and facts, Haaretz, 16 September 2011.
  6. ^ Sbaiti, Nadya and Mikdashi, Maya, 'Kamal Salibi (1929-2011),' in Jadaliyya, 6 September 2011
  7. ^ Segev, 2011.
  8. ^ Sbaiti, Nadya and Mikdashi, 2011

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Referensi tentang teori sejarah Yahudi-nya sunting

Al-Ahram weekly, a major Egyptian publication, briefly alluded to it Diarsipkan 20000829082353 di www.ahram.org.eg Galat: URL arsip tidak dikenal

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  • Hubbard, David (1956) The Literary Sources of the Kebra Nagast Ph.D. dissertation.,St.Andrews University, Scotland
  • Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Ge’ez Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, Germany
  • Rabin, Chaim (1951) Ancient West Arabian London: Taylor’s Foreign Press
  • Savoie, Denis (2009), Sundials: Design, Construction, and Use Springer Praxis, ISBN 978-0-387-09801-2 (see pp. 163–164)
  • Schneider, Roger (1973) Deux inscriptions subarabiques du Tigre. Leiden, Netherlands: Bibliotheca Orientalis, 30, 1973, 385-387
  • Ullendorff, Edward (1956) Hebraic Jewish Elements in Abyssinian (Monophysite) Christianity in Journal of Semitic Studies, 1, no.3, 216-256
  • Ullendorff, Edward (1960) The Ethiopians London: Oxford University Press
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