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هذا هو مسرح الكتاب نفسه: المعلّم بطرس البستاني — بصورته المرسومة سنة 1884 — يقف على المسرح، فهو الذي أخذ هذا التاريخ بيده فصحّحه وتقدّم بنفقة طبعه، وكتاب طنوس الشدياق يُقرأ بصوت عربي، بصوت كريم. طنوس الشدياق (نحو 1794–1861)، كاتب الأمراء الشهابيين، كتب أول تاريخ للبنان بقلم لبناني: أرض الجبل وأهله، وبيوتاته القديمة، وفخر الدين المعني، ومجيء الشهابيين إلى الجبل. باركود المكتبة في كل إطار — امسحه في أي لحظة لتعود إلى هذه المكتبة.
This is the book's own stage: al-Muʿallim Butrus al-Bustani — the Teacher, in his portrait of 1884 — stands on the stage, for it was he who took this chronicle in hand, corrected it, and advanced the cost of its printing, while Tannus al-Shidyaq's book is read aloud in Arabic, in Kareem's voice. Tannus al-Shidyaq (c. 1794–1861), secretary to the Shihabi emirs, wrote the first history of Lebanon by a Lebanese hand: the land and its peoples, its old houses, Fakhr al-Din, and the coming of the Shihabs to the Mountain. The bookstore barcode rides every frame — scan any moment to come back to this bookstore.
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What’s Inside
- Akhbār al-Aʿyān fī Jabal Lubnān — the Mountain's story, first movement: the land and its peoples exactly as the author described them; the old houses of the Mountain; Fakhr al-Dīn the Maʿnid; and the coming of the Shihabs to the Mountain (1697) — أخبار الأعيان في جبل لبنان — in the author's own words.
- 3 hours 33 minutes of narration — Kareem reads al-Shidyaq's chronicle aloud in Arabic, page by page, in a reading room you can follow with your eyes, while al-Bustani's portrait stands on the stage.
- The chronicle al-Bustani himself published — al-Shidyaq wrote it for the Shihabi emirs he served; al-Bustani corrected the manuscript with his own hand and advanced the cost of its Beirut printing (1855–1859).
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This is the public-domain text of Tannus al-Shidyaq's Akhbār al-Aʿyān fī Jabal Lubnān (Beirut, 1855–59), presented as a talking hologram book in the author's own Arabic. Al-Shidyaq died in 1861, more than a hundred and sixty years ago. This volume carries the chronicle's first great movement — the land and its peoples, the old houses, Fakhr al-Dīn, and the coming of the Shihabs; its genealogy rolls and passed-over annals are set aside, and the book's opening disclaimer says so plainly rather than claim nothing was taken away. The narration is a synthesized Arabic reading (Piper — Kareem) of that text, made for this edition; the figure on the stage is al-Bustani's portrait of 1884, painted by Dawud Qurm — al-Bustani corrected this chronicle and published it, and Volume One carries his own book. Editor: Franklin Langston.
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