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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. النصف الثاني من تاريخ طنوس الشدياق للجبل: من الأمير يوسف وحروب البيوتات، إلى قيام بشير الثاني وعصره، إلى دخول جيوش مصر، إلى سنة ١٨٤٠ — الثورة والأساطيل أمام بيروت وسقوط الأمير. وأعوام بشير الأخيرة عاشها المؤلف نفسه وكتب عما سمعه ورآه. 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. The chronicle's second great movement: Emir Yusuf and the wars of the houses, the rise of Bashir II and the height of his reign, the Egyptian years, and 1840 — the revolt, the fleets before Beirut, and the Fall of the Emir. Al-Shidyaq lived Bashir's last years himself, and wrote what he heard and saw. 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, second movement: Emir Yusuf and the wars of the houses; Bashir II — the rise and the height of his reign, including the oath of Antilyas; the Egyptian years; and 1840 — the revolt, the fleets before Beirut, and the Fall of the Emir — أخبار الأعيان في جبل لبنان — in the author's own words.
- 5 hours 11 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 second great movement — Emir Yusuf and the wars of the houses, Bashir II's rise and height, the Egyptian years, and the Fall of 1840; 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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