Marun al-Naqqash — Arabic Wikipedia

Arabic Wikipedia article on Marun al-Naqqash; used for entity facts only. It gives his birth at Sidon in 1817 (year only), his father as Ilyas ibn Mikhail, his brother Nicolas (infobox), his three plays — al-Bakhil (1848), Abu al-Hasan al-Mughaffal wa-Harun al-Rashid (1850) and al-Hasud al-Salit (1853) — his 1846 stay in Italy, his conversion of his theatre into a church shortly before his death under pressure from conservatives and clergy, and his death at Tarsus on 1 June 1855 after a fever. It makes no statement naming his religion.