Iskandar Abkarius
إسكندر أبكاريوس
1885 CE · 1303 AH
A Lebanese man of letters, poet, journalist and historian from an Armenian family settled in Beirut; one of the figures of the Arabic literary revival in the second half of the nineteenth century.
At a glance
- Roles
- writer · Poet · Historian
- Era
- The Modern Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Life in time
Place in the story
- JournalistTradition
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People and things also explored
Ka'b ibn Zuhayr's pardon and recitation of Banat Su'ad· Khuza'a's appeal to Medina· The killing of Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf· Aban al-Lahiqi· Abbas ibn Mirdas al-Sulami· Abd al-Ghaffar al-Akhras· Abd al-Qadir al-Baghdadi· Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “Iskandar Abkarius”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abkarius-iskandar-ibn-yaqub/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.