Back قسطنطين زريق Arabic قسطنطين زريق ARZ Constantin Zureik German Constantin Zureiq Spanish کنستانتین زریق Persian Constantin Zureik French Constantin Zureyq Italian Konstantin Züreyk Turkish
Constantin Kaysar Zurayk قنسطنطين زريق | |
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| Acting President of the American University of Beirut | |
| In office 1954–1957 | |
| Preceded by | Stephen Beasley Linnard Penrose, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | J. Paul Leonard |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 18, 1909 Damascus, Syria Vilayet, Ottoman Syria |
| Died | August 11, 2000 (aged 91) Beirut, Lebanon |
| Relatives | Afaf Zurayk Dimitri Zurayk Camille Zurayk Sami Zurayk Ibrahim Zurayk Michelle Zurayk Michel Zurayk Gilbert Zurayk Kamil Zurayk |
| Alma mater | American University of Beirut, Princeton University, University of Michigan |
| Profession | Politician, diplomat, professor, academic administrator |
Constantin Zurayk (Arabic: قنسطنطين زريق; 18 April 1909 – 11 August 2000) was a prominent and influential Syrian Arab intellectual who was one of the first to pioneer and express the importance of Arab nationalism. He stressed the urgent need to transform stagnant Arab society by means of rational thought and radical modification of the methods of thinking and acting. He developed some ideas, such as the "Arab mission" and "national philosophy", which were to become key concepts for Arab nationalist thinkers, and in more recent years was a strong proponent of an intellectual reformation of Arab society, emphasizing the need for rationalism and an ethical revolution.
He is credited with coining the term Nakba, or Catastrophe, to refer to the Arab defeat of the War of 1948 in his book Maʿna an-Nakba.[1][2]
- ^ "Ma'na al-Nakba (The Meaning of the Nakba) (book)". Cork, Ireland: University College Cork. Palestine: Information with Provenance (PIWP database). Archived from the original on May 4, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2019.
Title: Ma'na al-Nakba (The Meaning of the Nakba). By: Constantine K. Zureik. Date of issue: August 1948. Topic(s) addressed: كبة/Nakbah/Naqba/הנכבה (Arabic, "the catastrophe") expulsion of Palestinians in 1948 · First usage of the word Nakba for expulsion of Palestinians in 1948
. - ^ Khalidi, Rashid (2007). "1 The Palestinians and 1948: the underlying causes of failure". The war for Palestine : rewriting the history of 1948. Eugene L. Rogan, Avi Shlaim (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-511-37135-6. OCLC 192047956.
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