Article ID: CBB102307409

The Oriental Library and the Catholic Press at Saint-Joseph University in Beirut (2015)

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This article traces the origins of the Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut, the creation of the Oriental Library, and the beginnings of the Catholic press in Syria. The focus of this article is the importance of the Bibliothèque Orientale: its financing, its development, its publications, and its cultural significance throughout the entire Middle East. I examine the opening of the Oriental Faculty, its program of study, and its teaching staff, and describe the inauguration of the main journal of the faculty, Mélanges de la Faculté Orientale. The article concludes with a discussion of the creation of the Catholic press, along with its staff and various publications in Arabic and French, with attention to the influential periodicals al-Bashir and al-Mashriq.

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Authors & Contributors
Tsacoyianis, Beverly Ann
Windmuller-Luna, Kristen
Rixon, Gordon A.
Shamsy, Ahmed El
Alberto Mirandola
Ciesielska, Danuta
Concepts
Universities and colleges
Libraries and archives
Printing
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Psychiatry
Missionaries and missions
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
17th century
18th century
Places
Syria
Lebanon
England
Spain
Italy
Europe
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
University of Padua
University of Toronto
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