Abdallah Marrash
Abdallah bin Fathallah bin Nasrallah Marrash was a writer involved in various Arabiclanguage newspaper ventures in London and Paris.
Abdallah Marrash was born in Aleppo, a city of Ottoman Syria , to an old Melkite family of merchants known for their literary interests. Having earned wealth and standing in the 18th century, the family was well established in Aleppo, although they had gone through troubles a relative of Abdallah, Butrus Marrash, was martyred by Greek Orthodox fundamentalists in April 1818. Other Melkite Catholics were exiled from Aleppo during the persecutions, among them the priest Jibrail Marrash. Abdallahs father, Fathallah, tried to defuse the Sectarian conflict by writing a treatise in 1849, in which he rejected the Filioque. He had built up a large private library to give his three children Francis, Abdallah and Maryana a thorough education, particularly in the field of Arabic language and literature.
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