Anthony Edwards
Biographic Data
| ID | 3662788 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony Edwards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony |
| FAMILY NAME | Edwards |
| SIGNATURE | EDWARDS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington and Lee University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7717-6499 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rival institutions
The jamʿiyyāt (learned societies) are hallmarks of the Arab Nahḍa (“Renaissance”) in Beirut. This article focuses on the agency of Syrian members and studies the earliest three institutions in the context of social dynamics, economic linkages, political aspirations, and religious contestations. Centred around Syrians and Protestant missionaries, the Syrian Society of Arts and Sciences (1847) functioned as a site of growing American religious and …
Integrating gender-inclusive initiatives in medical school in Rwanda
Purpose Significant gender disparities exist in the medical field. Medical schools play an important role in promoting gender inclusion, which can lead to increased gender equity in clinical settings. This study explores participants’ experiences and gender perspectives at the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Rwanda, which is prioritizing gender inclusion across several initiatives.Materials and methods This is a qualitative study wit…
ʿAbdallah Witwat
The intellectual elite in Beirut dominate the historiography of the Arab Nahḍa (“Renaissance”). Hence, this paper offers a microhistory of a relative nobody to shed light on how the ordinary man lived, worked, learned, and worshiped. The oldest son of the first Druze convert to Protestantism, ʿAbdallah Witwat received an American missionary education, worked as a teacher and type caster, expanded his intellectual horizons at learned societies, an…
Buṭrus al-Bustānī and the Oration Committee of 1859
The prominent Christian intellectual and literary figure Buṭrus al-Bustānī (1819–83) was a complex figure. Although he disentangled himself from the American Protestant missionaries in Beirut, he readily collaborated with foreigners in town throughout his life. This article examines his intellectual and social network in 1859 when he founded ʿUmdat al-Khiṭābāt (the Oration Committee), alongside foreigners and locals, and delivered “ Khuṭba fī Ādā…
All the Privileges of Citizenship without its Burdens
Buṭrus al-Bustānī (1819-83) is a key figure of the nineteenth-century nahḍa ("Renaissance"). His twenty-plus-year career as the first dragoman (translator and interpreter) at the US Consulate in Beirut, however, is largely overlooked in academia. This article on his dragomanship unearths his close connection to the US-Ottoman political scene and his protected status as a US protégé. Using untapped records held at the US National Archives, this st…
Orientalist Infotainment and the US Lecture Tour of Gregory M. Wortabet (1828–93)
This article studies the US lecture tour of Gregory M. Wortabet (1828–93), a forgotten Syrian intellectual of the Arab Nahda (“Awakening” or “Renaissance”), to examine the production of knowledge about the Middle East in America in the mid-nineteenth century. A biographical sketch focusing on his Syrian Protestant identity and his association with the American Protestant missionaries in Beirut set the stage. Next, his 1852–54 lecture circuit in A…
Becoming the Muʿallim
One cannot speak of the nineteenth-century Beirut Nahḍa and not mention Muʿallim Buṭrus al-Bustānī (1819-83). This article examines how al-Bustānī utilized the Arabic oratorical tradition and the innovative medium of print to create the Muʿallim brand. The first section analyses his Khuṭba fī Ādāb al-ʿArab (An Oration on the Culture of the Arabs, 1859) to illustrate how he operationalized the Arabic rhetorical style to position himself as an eloq…
The Business of Publishing in the Early Beirut Nahḍa
This article examines the business and economics of publishing in the early Beirut Nahḍa. First, the practice of patronage to bring original works to print shows how money facilitated cultural production in the 1850s. Next, a case study of Khalīl al-Khūrī's (1836-1907) newspaper and press, Ḥadīqat al-Akhbār ("News Garden", established 1858) and al-Maṭbaʿa al-Sūriyya ("the Syrian Press", established 1857), reveals the operational challenges and fi…
Serializing protestantism
This article explores the connections between two distinct publishing enterprises in 1850s Beirut to put into relief how American missionaries and learned Syrians in tandem shaped the early Arabic press industry. It examines Syrian journalistic ambitions, a missionary foray into serialized print, and the material practices of early Arabic publishing. Section one provides the first detailed history of the Miscellany (1851–1856), a series of religi…
Revisiting aNahḍaorigin story
This article is a comprehensive evaluation of the first learned society of theNahḍa(Renaissance) in Beirut. I argue thatMajmaʿ al-Tahdhīb(the Refinement Council, est. 1846) was not a learned society but anad hocseminary formed to train converts for itinerant preaching and to build camaraderie among the nascent Protestant confession. In order to unearth the mission ofMajmaʿ al-Tahdhīband amplify the voices of its members - twelve Syrians and two A…
Likelihood in Statistics
Do the Defence Matter
Hesiod's Ascra
In Works and Days, one of the two long poems that have come down to us from Hesiod, the poet writes of farming, morality, and what seems to be a very nasty quarrel with his brother Perses over their inheritance. This book extracts from the poem a picture of the social structure of Ascra, the hamlet in northern Greece where Hesiod lived, most likely during the seventh century b.c.e. Drawing on the evidence of trade, food storage, reciprocity, and …
Fact or Fiction? In Search of the "Learned Council" of Jirmānūs Farḥāt
The “learned council” of Jirmānūs Farḥāt (1670-1732) often surfaces as illustrative of ecumenical humanism in the Levant in the century leading up to the Arab Nahḍa (Renaissance). Primary information about the group however is essentially nonexistent, prompting the regurgitation of facts culled from a discrete number of early 20th -century researches on Farḥāt and his colleagues. This essay puts the historical existence of Farḥāt’s “learned counc…
Hesiod's Ascra
In Works and Days, one of the two long poems that have come down to us from Hesiod, the poet writes of farming, morality, and what seems to be a very nasty quarrel with his brother Perses over their inheritance. This book extracts from the poem a picture of the social structure of Ascra, the hamlet in northern Greece where Hesiod lived, most likely during the seventh century b.c.e. Drawing on the evidence of trade, food storage, reciprocity, and …
Do the Defence Matter
Fact or Fiction? In Search of the "Learned Council" of Jirmānūs Farḥāt
The “learned council” of Jirmānūs Farḥāt (1670-1732) often surfaces as illustrative of ecumenical humanism in the Levant in the century leading up to the Arab Nahḍa (Renaissance). Primary information about the group however is essentially nonexistent, prompting the regurgitation of facts culled from a discrete number of early 20th -century researches on Farḥāt and his colleagues. This essay puts the historical existence of Farḥāt’s “learned counc…
Hesiod's Ascra
In Works and Days, one of the two long poems that have come down to us from Hesiod, the poet writes of farming, morality, and what seems to be a very nasty quarrel with his brother Perses over their inheritance. This book extracts from the poem a picture of the social structure of Ascra, the hamlet in northern Greece where Hesiod lived, most likely during the seventh century b.c.e. Drawing on the evidence of trade, food storage, reciprocity, and …
Do the Defence Matter
Likelihood in Statistics
Revisiting aNahḍaorigin story
This article is a comprehensive evaluation of the first learned society of theNahḍa(Renaissance) in Beirut. I argue thatMajmaʿ al-Tahdhīb(the Refinement Council, est. 1846) was not a learned society but anad hocseminary formed to train converts for itinerant preaching and to build camaraderie among the nascent Protestant confession. In order to unearth the mission ofMajmaʿ al-Tahdhīband amplify the voices of its members - twelve Syrians and two A…
Serializing protestantism
This article explores the connections between two distinct publishing enterprises in 1850s Beirut to put into relief how American missionaries and learned Syrians in tandem shaped the early Arabic press industry. It examines Syrian journalistic ambitions, a missionary foray into serialized print, and the material practices of early Arabic publishing. Section one provides the first detailed history of the Miscellany (1851–1856), a series of religi…
The Business of Publishing in the Early Beirut Nahḍa
This article examines the business and economics of publishing in the early Beirut Nahḍa. First, the practice of patronage to bring original works to print shows how money facilitated cultural production in the 1850s. Next, a case study of Khalīl al-Khūrī's (1836-1907) newspaper and press, Ḥadīqat al-Akhbār ("News Garden", established 1858) and al-Maṭbaʿa al-Sūriyya ("the Syrian Press", established 1857), reveals the operational challenges and fi…
Becoming the Muʿallim
One cannot speak of the nineteenth-century Beirut Nahḍa and not mention Muʿallim Buṭrus al-Bustānī (1819-83). This article examines how al-Bustānī utilized the Arabic oratorical tradition and the innovative medium of print to create the Muʿallim brand. The first section analyses his Khuṭba fī Ādāb al-ʿArab (An Oration on the Culture of the Arabs, 1859) to illustrate how he operationalized the Arabic rhetorical style to position himself as an eloq…
Orientalist Infotainment and the US Lecture Tour of Gregory M. Wortabet (1828–93)
This article studies the US lecture tour of Gregory M. Wortabet (1828–93), a forgotten Syrian intellectual of the Arab Nahda (“Awakening” or “Renaissance”), to examine the production of knowledge about the Middle East in America in the mid-nineteenth century. A biographical sketch focusing on his Syrian Protestant identity and his association with the American Protestant missionaries in Beirut set the stage. Next, his 1852–54 lecture circuit in A…
Integrating gender-inclusive initiatives in medical school in Rwanda
Purpose Significant gender disparities exist in the medical field. Medical schools play an important role in promoting gender inclusion, which can lead to increased gender equity in clinical settings. This study explores participants’ experiences and gender perspectives at the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Rwanda, which is prioritizing gender inclusion across several initiatives.Materials and methods This is a qualitative study wit…
ʿAbdallah Witwat
The intellectual elite in Beirut dominate the historiography of the Arab Nahḍa (“Renaissance”). Hence, this paper offers a microhistory of a relative nobody to shed light on how the ordinary man lived, worked, learned, and worshiped. The oldest son of the first Druze convert to Protestantism, ʿAbdallah Witwat received an American missionary education, worked as a teacher and type caster, expanded his intellectual horizons at learned societies, an…
Buṭrus al-Bustānī and the Oration Committee of 1859
The prominent Christian intellectual and literary figure Buṭrus al-Bustānī (1819–83) was a complex figure. Although he disentangled himself from the American Protestant missionaries in Beirut, he readily collaborated with foreigners in town throughout his life. This article examines his intellectual and social network in 1859 when he founded ʿUmdat al-Khiṭābāt (the Oration Committee), alongside foreigners and locals, and delivered “ Khuṭba fī Ādā…
All the Privileges of Citizenship without its Burdens
Buṭrus al-Bustānī (1819-83) is a key figure of the nineteenth-century nahḍa ("Renaissance"). His twenty-plus-year career as the first dragoman (translator and interpreter) at the US Consulate in Beirut, however, is largely overlooked in academia. This article on his dragomanship unearths his close connection to the US-Ottoman political scene and his protected status as a US protégé. Using untapped records held at the US National Archives, this st…
Rival institutions
The jamʿiyyāt (learned societies) are hallmarks of the Arab Nahḍa (“Renaissance”) in Beirut. This article focuses on the agency of Syrian members and studies the earliest three institutions in the context of social dynamics, economic linkages, political aspirations, and religious contestations. Centred around Syrians and Protestant missionaries, the Syrian Society of Arts and Sciences (1847) functioned as a site of growing American religious and …
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