Kamal Suleiman Salibi (Arab: كمال سليمان الصليبي ) (2 Mei 1929 – 1 September 2011) adalah seorang sejarawan Lebanon, profesor sejarah di Universitas Amerika Beirut (AUB) dan Direktur Pendiri (kemudian Presiden Kehormatan) Institut Pembelajaran Antar-Keyakinan Kerajaan di Amman, Yordania. Ia merupakan seorang sarjana seumur hidup, yang mengiprahkan hidupnya ke dalam buku-buku.
| Profesor Kamal Salibi | |
|---|---|
Salibi pada April 2009 | |
| Lahir | Kamal Suleiman Salibi 2 Mei 1929 Beirut, Lebanon |
| Meninggal | 1 September 2011 (umur 82) Beirut, Lebanon |
| Kebangsaan | Lebanon |
| Pekerjaan | Sejarawan, akademisi, peneliti |
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Lahir dari sebuah keluarga Protestan di Beirut, keluarga Salibi berasal dari desa Lebanon Bhamdoun di Lebanon Mandat Prancis. Setelah belajar di sekolah misionaris Prancis di Bhamdoun dan Broummana, ia menyelesaikan pendidikan menengahnya di Prep School di Beirut (sekarang International College), dan gelar BA-nya dalam bidang Ilmu Pengetahuan Sejarah dan Politik dari AUB, sebelum berpindah ke Sekolah Pembelajaran Dunia Timur dan Afrika, SOAS (Universitas London) dimana ia mendapatkan gelar PhD-nya dalam bidang sejarah pada 1953 dibawah bimbingan sejarawan Bernard Lewis. Disertasinya kemudian diterbitkan dengan judul Maronite Historians of Mediaeval Lebanon.
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- Maronite Historians of Mediaeval Lebanon, Beirut, AUB Oriental Series 34, 1959
- The Modern History of Lebanon, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1965
- Crossroads to Civil War, Lebanon 1958-1976, Beirut, Caravan Books, 1976
- Syria under Islam: Empire on Trial 634-1097, Beirut, Caravan Books, 1977
- A History of Arabia, Beirut, Caravan Books, 1980
- The Bible Came from Arabia, London, Jonathan Cape, 1985
- Secrets of the Bible People, London, Saqi Books, 1988
- Who Was Jesus?: Conspiracy in Jerusalem, London, I.B. Tauris, 1988
- A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered, London, I.B. Tauris, 1988
- The Historicity of Biblical Israel, London, NABU Publications, 1998
- The Historicity of Biblical Israel (edisi kedua), Beirut, Dar Nelson, 2009
- The Modern History of Jordan, London, I.B. Tauris, 1993
- A Bird on an Oak Tree (Arabic طائر على سنديانة), Amman, Ashshoroq Publishers, 2002
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- Lebanese historian Salibi died at 82 ilouban,com, 1 September 2011.
- Brooke Anderson,Friends remember Lebanese historian for his generosity and storytelling,' The Daily Star, 1 September 2011.
- Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies
- Rabinowitz, Itamar, 'Eulogy for a Lebanese intellectual:On the death of historian Kamal Salibi,' in Haaretz, 29 September 2011
- Tom Segev, The Makings of History/Myths and facts, Haaretz, 16 September 2011.
- Sbaiti, Nadya and Mikdashi, Maya, 'Kamal Salibi (1929-2011),' in Jadaliyya, 6 September 2011
- Segev, 2011.
- Sbaiti, Nadya and Mikdashi, 2011
- Anderson, Brooke Friends remember Lebanese historian for his generosity and storytelling,' The Daily Star, 1 September 2011
- Beeston, A.F.L., Review of "The Bible Came from Arabia", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1988, pp. 389–93)
- Berry, Steve. "The Alexandria Link" Hodder & Stoughton, 2007; fiction. A thriller using Salibi’s theory as a plot device.
- Cardinal, P., "La Bible et L'Arabie", Revue d'études Palestiniennes vol. 7 No. 26 (winter 1988) pp. 63–70
- Dahlberg, Bruce, Comments in the Ancient Near East Digest, 1994.
- Parfitt, Tudor, "The hijacking of Israel", The Sunday Times (London) 27 October 1985
- Rabinowitz, Itamar, 'Eulogy for a Lebanese intellectual:On the death of historian Kamal Salibi,' in Haaretz, 29 September 2011.
- Salamé-Sarkis, H., "Et si la Bible venait d'Arabie?", Berytus, Beirut 1985 XXXIII pp. 143–165
- Sbaiti, Nadya and Mikdashi, Maya, 'Kamal Salibi (1929-2011),' in Jadaliyya, 6 September 2011
- Segev, Tom, 'The Makings of History / Myths and facts,' in Haaretz 16 September 2011.
- Towner, W. Sibley, Review of "The Bible Came from Arabia", Middle East Journal 1988, 42 pp. 511–513
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- http://www.cwo.com/~thowoods/salibi.htm more information and pictures of Asir.
- Phillip C. Hammond's 1990 Review of The Bible Came from Arabia, in The International Journal of Middle East Studies (August, 1990)
- http://baheyeldin.com/science/kamal-salibi-and-the-israel-from-yemen-theory.html gives lots of links.
- Kamal Salibi's personal blog [1].
Referensi tentang teori sejarah Yahudi-nya sunting
Al-Ahram weekly, a major Egyptian publication, briefly alluded to it Diarsipkan 20000829082353 di www.ahram.org.eg Galat: URL arsip tidak dikenal
Referensi lain sunting
- Biella, Joan (2004) Dictionary of Old South Arabian – Sabaean Dialect Eisenbrauns, Winola Lake, Indiana, USA
- Hubbard, David (1956) The Literary Sources of the Kebra Nagast Ph.D. dissertation.,St.Andrews University, Scotland
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Ge’ez Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, Germany
- Rabin, Chaim (1951) Ancient West Arabian London: Taylor’s Foreign Press
- Savoie, Denis (2009), Sundials: Design, Construction, and Use Springer Praxis, ISBN 978-0-387-09801-2 (see pp. 163–164)
- Schneider, Roger (1973) Deux inscriptions subarabiques du Tigre. Leiden, Netherlands: Bibliotheca Orientalis, 30, 1973, 385-387
- Ullendorff, Edward (1956) Hebraic Jewish Elements in Abyssinian (Monophysite) Christianity in Journal of Semitic Studies, 1, no.3, 216-256
- Ullendorff, Edward (1960) The Ethiopians London: Oxford University Press
- Ullendorff, Edward (1968) Ethiopia and the Bible London: Oxford University Press