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Muhammad Salim Barakat

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Muhammad Salim Barakat
Born1930
Damascus
Died5 June 1999
Damascus
Resting placeDamascus
OccupationWriter, poet, translator, teacher
LanguageArabic - French
NationalitySyrian
CitizenshipSyria
EducationBA in Arabic Language and Literature - The Department of Philosophy and Oriental Languages in Ain Shams University in Cairo. Two post-graduate diplomas in pedagogy and psychology - The High Institute of Pedagogy in Ain Shams University in Cairo.
Notable awards"Chevalier dans l'ordre des Palmes Académiques" 1978 "Officier dans l'ordre de Palmes Académiques" 1995

Muhammad Salim Barakat (Arabic: محمد سليم بركات) was an Arab writer, translator and teacher of Arabic language.[1] He has trained outstanding French university teachers of Arabic and Orientalist scholars at the end of the 20th century[2] such as Jean-Yves L'hopital,[3] George Bohas,[4] Lidia Bettini,[5] Anne Regourd,[6] and Thierry Bianquis.[7] He was born in Damascus in 1930 and died in it in 1999.[8] He is not to be confused with his homonym, the Kurdish-Syrian novelist and poet Salim Barakat.

Life

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Muhammad Salim Barakat came from a religious background. His father, Muhammad ibn Jaafar al-Kassar, a Shafii Muslim, served as the imam and preacher of al-Innaba mosque in Bab Sarija in old Damascus,[9] He belongs to an old Damascene family, as cited in the encyclopaedia of Damascene families 1/222, according to Al-Babiteen Dictionary of Arab Poets[10]

Barakat grew up in Damascus.[11] He moved to Cairo in Egypt and graduated from the Department of Philosophy and Oriental Languages in the College of Arabic Language in Ain Shams University, then obtained two post-graduate diplomas in pedagogy and psychology from the High Institute of Pedagogy at the same university.[12]

Work

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When in Egypt, he met with Taha Hussein, Tawfiq al-Hakim and Abbas Mahmoud al-Akkad, and was influenced by their literature, and also by Nasserism.[13] He returned to Damascus and worked as a teacher of Arabic language.[14] He was a member of research and studies association.[15] He worked in the French Institute for Arabic Studies in Damascus[16] (IFEAD: Institut Francais d’Etudes Arabes de Damas, later known as IFPO: Institut Français du Proche Orient) from 1970 to 1999.[citation needed] He was sent as a professor of Arabic literature and Orientalism to the INALCO (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales) in Paris, which is a Sorbonne institution, from 1991 to 1994.[citation needed]

His most notable contribution include:

  • His translation of "Le voile du nom : essai sur le nom propre arabe", by Jacqueline Sublet, from French into Arabic, which was published by the IFPO.[17][18]
  • His article, "Les inscriptions de la maison Sibai", in collaboration with French scholar Jean-Yves L'Hopital, and Nabil Al-Lao was published by the Bulletin d'Etudes Orientales in 2001.[19][20]
  • He was a member of the Arab Writer's Union,[21] headquartered in Damascus[22]

Posterity

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Upon his death in 1999, a hall was named after him in the INALCO, and another in the IFPO in Damascus. He was also mourned by the French newspaper Le Monde in its issue of 9 June 1999.[23] Dominique Mallet also, a French scholar, wrote from Cairo an obituary "In memoriam of Salim Mohammed Barakat".[24]

He was married to Farideh Al-Fawakhiri (1941–2011), and a father of Nouar (F 1968), Maha (F 1969), Mouhammad (M 1970), Charif (M 1972), Ahmad (M 1976), and Reem (F 1985). A street has been allocated to carry his name in central Damascus in Al-Mouhajireen quarter (his own quarter), but is still pending because of the civil war that has erupted in March 2011.[citation needed]

Bibliography

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  • Sublet, Jacqueline, and Salīm M. Barakāt. Ḥiṣn Al-Ism : Qirāʹāt Fī Al-Asmāʹ Al-ʻarabiyya =: Le Voile Du Nom : Essai Sur Le Nom Propre Arabe. Damas: Institut français de Damas, 1999[25][26]
  • BARAKĀT, Salīm Muḥammad, Nabīl AL-LAO, and Jean-Yves L'HÔPITAL. 2001. “LES INSCRIPTIONS DE LA MAISON SIBĀ'Ī”. Bulletin D'études Orientales 53/54. Institut Francais du Proche-Orient:[27][28][29] 181–227. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41608508.

Awards

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In 1978, he was awarded the "Chevalier dans l'ordre des Palmes Académiques", and in 1995, the "Officier dans l'ordre de Palmes Académiques" by the French Ministry of Education.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ "اتحاد الكتاب العرب في سورية | محمد سليم بركات". www.awu.sy. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
  2. ^ MALLET, Dominique (1999-01-01). "In Memoriam: Salim Mohammed Barakat (19301999)". Bulletin d'Études Orientales. 51: 10–14. JSTOR 41608456.
  3. ^ l'Hopital, Jean-Yves (1987). "" LE DÉSIR FOU DE LA PASSION NOUS ENIVRE " ou Description d'une ḥaḍra mystique à Damas". Bulletin d'Études Orientales. 39/40: 68. JSTOR 41604721.
  4. ^ Arkoun, M. (1982-01-01). Études de linguistique arabe (in French). Brill Archive. p. 204. ISBN 9004067965.
  5. ^ Bettini, Lidia (1987). "Langue et Rhetorique Au V". Quaderni di Studi Arabi. 5/6: 91–104. JSTOR 25802596.
  6. ^ Regourd, Anne (2013-01-01). "Ğāḥiẓiana. Addition à l'essai d'inventaire de l'œuvre ǧāḥiẓienne : le Kitāb al-Fityān retrouvé ? 1". Arabica. 60 (1–2): 106. doi:10.1163/15700585-12341254. ISSN 1570-0585.
  7. ^ Bianquis, Thierry (1970). "Les Derniers Gouverneurs Ikhchidides a Damas". Bulletin d'Études Orientales. 23: 190. JSTOR 41603309.
  8. ^ | AlKindi4 – OPAC. Retrieved 2015-12-23. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  9. ^ IslamKotob. نثر الجواهر والدرر في علماء القرن الرابع عشر وبذيله عقد الجوهر في علماء الربع الأول من القرن الخامس عشر (in Arabic). IslamKotob.
  10. ^ "معجم البابطين لشعراء العربية .. مراجعة ونقد (11)". www.alukah.net. 2013-02-12. Retrieved 2016-01-20.
  11. ^ "اتحاد الكتاب العرب في سورية | محمد سليم بركات". www.awu.sy. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
  12. ^ "اتحاد الكتاب العرب في سورية | محمد سليم بركات". www.awu.sy. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
  13. ^ Mallet, Dominique (1999). "In Memoriam: Salim Mohammed Barakat (19301999)". Bulletin d'Études Orientales. 51: 10–14. JSTOR 41608456.
  14. ^ "اتحاد الكتاب العرب في سورية | محمد سليم بركات". www.awu.sy. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
  15. ^ "اتحاد الكتاب العرب في سورية | محمد سليم بركات". www.awu.sy. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
  16. ^ l'Hopital, Jean-Yves (1987). "" LE DÉSIR FOU DE LA PASSION NOUS ENIVRE " ou Description d'une ḥaḍra mystique à Damas". Bulletin d'Études Orientales. 39/40: 68. JSTOR 41604721.
  17. ^ WorldCat. OCLC 43323415.
  18. ^ "VIAF".
  19. ^ Sinclair, Susan (2012-04-03). Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 Vol. Set). BRILL. ISBN 978-9004170582.
  20. ^ "BULLETIN D'ÉTUDES ORIENTALES" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-23.
  21. ^ "اتحاد الكتاب العرب في سورية | محمد سليم بركات". www.awu.sy. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
  22. ^ "اتحاد الكتاب العرب في سورية". www.awu.sy. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
  23. ^ ["Muhammad Salim Barakat" (PDF). Le Monde. June 9, 1999. p. 16. "Le Monde"]. Media. 9 June 1999. Retrieved 23 Dec 2015 – via Internet. {{cite news}}: Check |url= value (help)
  24. ^ MALLET, Dominique (1999-01-01). "In Memoriam: Salim Mohammed Barakat (19301999)". Bulletin d'Études Orientales. 51: 10–14. JSTOR 41608456.
  25. ^ Sublet, Jacqueline; Barakāt, Salīm Mohammed (1999-01-01). Ḥiṣn al-ism: qirāʹāt fī al-asmāʹ al-ʻarabiyya = Le voile du nom : essai sur le nom propre arabe (in Arabic). Damas: Institut français de Damas. ISBN 2901315496. OCLC 43323415.
  26. ^ "VIAF".
  27. ^ Sinclair, Susan (2012-04-03). Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 Vol. Set). BRILL. ISBN 978-9004170582.
  28. ^ "BULLETIN D'ÉTUDES ORIENTALES" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-23.
  29. ^ Barakāt, Salīm MuḥAmmad; Al-Lao, Nabīl; l'Hôpital, Jean-Yves (2001). "Les Inscriptions de la Maison Sibā'ī". Bulletin d'Études Orientales. 53/54: 181–227. JSTOR 41608508.
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