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Welcome to the Zaidan Foundation

Zaidan Foundation Program

Advisory Council

The Zaidan Foundation Program

Jurji Zaidan (1861-1914) was a prolific and famous Christian Arab historian, linguist and journalist who wrote widely on social and cultural issues. He came to Egypt from Lebanon at the end of the nineteenth century and founded in Egypt what is still one of the largest publishing houses for periodicals in the Middle East, Dar-Al-Hilal. His objective and rational interpretations of Arab and Islamic history and the Arabic language allowed the propagation of progressive western ideas. As a prominent member of a progressive group of Arab thinkers, he shepherded a movement to modernize the Arab world.

Making his views and works available to non-Arabic speakers would promote intercultural understanding at a time when Arab and Islamic thought is not sufficiently known or understood in the west.

The aim of the Jurji Zaidan Program is to:

• Revisit Jurji Zaidan’s work and re-evaluate his role in the development of Arab thought and his contribution to the Arab renaissance (Nahda) of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries;

• Make available some of his works to a wide audience with an interest in the Arab and Islamic cultural heritage but limited or no knowledge of the Arabic language.

Components of the Jurji Zaidan Program

Towards this end the Zaidan Foundation is sponsoring a number of studies, conferences and translations into English of some of his works as follows.

A. Jurji Zaidan and the Foundations of Arab Nationalism
(New York: Syracuse University Press, 2014) by Thomas Philipp.

The central theme of this volume sponsored by the Zaidan Foundation and published by Syracuse University Press is to demonstrate how Jurji Zaidan’s secular analysis of history and language influenced the evolution of his Pan-Arab nationalist thought. It traces the manifold relationships between Zaidan’s thinking as a historian, linguist and his views on Arab nationalism. The seminal contribution of this work is that it is the first to anlayze Zaidan’s thought on history, language and nationalism as an integrated whole. The volume consists of three parts. The first part is an essay that demonstrates Jurji Zaidan’s secular approach to the analysis of Arab and Islamic history and the evolution of language, especially the Arabic language. It goes on to assess how this approach influenced the secular pan-Arab nationalism that he spearheaded and which was the defining characteristic of the Nahda. The essay draws on articles written by Zaidan and published in Al-Hilal between 1892 and 1914 as well as his scholarly works. Thirty articles and excerpts from his scholarly works were translated for this book. They were chosen for their relevance to the topics covered in the essay. These translations are reproduced in the second section of this volume. The third section constitutes the first comprehensive bibliography of Jurji Zaidan’s works both in Arabic and all the languages into which his works have been translated over the past century as well as works about him.  Details on this work can be found here.

B. Jurji Zaidan’s Contributions to Modern Arab Thought and Literature

Contents and Preface

The Zaidan Foundation sponsored a Symposium on Jurji Zaidan held at the Library of Congress on June 5, 2012. A volume on that Symposium entitled Jurji Zaidan’s Contributions to Modern Arab Thought and Literature edited by George C. Zaidan and Thomas Philipp was published by the Foundation in 2013. The volume includes twelve essays by noted scholars in leading western and Middle Eastern Universities assessing Zaidan’s contributions as an Arab nationalist, historical novelist, journalist, historian, linguist, social and political reformer, and educator. This volume complements and supplements Jurji Zaidan and the Foundations of Arab Nationalism (described under A above); the latter volume focuses primarily on Zaidan’s contributions as a historian and linguist. For more details click here.

C. The Translation Into English of Historical Novels

Jurji Zaidan wrote twenty-two historical novels between 1892 and 1914 more than one hundred of which were translated into nine different languages but none into English. The Zaidan Foundation has so far commissioned the translation into English of five of Jurji Zaidan’s historical novels and more are being planned. All have been translated by leading literary and historical scholars in leading universities and include literary and historical commentaries by these scholars as well as Study Guides.

Two of these novels are set at the time and following the Arab conquest of Spain in 710-711 AD; two at the apogee of Arab and Islamic civilization during the ‘Abbasid period; and the last at the time of the Crusaders, as follows:

• The first novel is The Conquest of Andalusia (Fath al-Andalus) first published in 1903. It is set in Spain immediately prior to and during the Arab conquest which resulted in an Arab presence that was to last almost eight centuries. It was translated by Professor Roger Allen of the University of Pennsylvania.

• It is followed by The Battle of Poitiers – Charles Martel and Abd al-Rahman (Sharl wa ‘Abd al-Rahman) first published in Cairo in 1904 and translated by Professor William Granara of Harvard University. It is set in France at the beginning of the eighth century and describes the Arab invasion of France and how the Franks, under the leadership of Charles Martel, united to stop their advance in Europe

• Two other novels are set in the ‘Abbasid period, during and after the reign of Harun Al-Rashid, best known to the Western world as the caliph whose court is described in the Arabian Nights during the zenith of Arab and Islamic power and civilization — The Caliph’s Sister – Harun al-Rashid and the Fall of the Persians(al-Abbasa Ukht al-Rashid; 1906) translated by Professor Issa Boullata of Mc Gill University and The Caliph’s Heirs – Brothers at War: the Fall of Baghdad (al-Amin wa’l-Ma’mun; 1907) translated by Professor Michael Cooperson of UCLA.

• The fifth novel, Saladin and the Assassins (Salah al-din al-Ayyubi; 1913) was translated by Profesor Paul Starkey of Durham University in the UK and takes place at the time of the Crusades. Saladin is an important historical figure known in the west for having fought Richard the Lionheart, defeated the crusaders and recaptured Jerusalem. He established his rule over Egypt and Syria and founded the Ayyubid dynasty. In Egypt he overturned the Shi‘i Fatimid caliphate returning Egypt to Sunni Islam.

Details on all these novels can be found here.

Opera on the Life of Jurji Zaidan
(in Arabic) attended by the
President of Egypt

Prelude with Speeches of Literary Figures

Jurji Zaidan and his Family

Centennial Celebrations
of Dar-al-Hilal


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A tale of two cities: Rome and Canterbury

[ by Charles Cameron — on the ceremonial installations of the 266th Pope in Rome, and the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury, together with a brief excursus on getting through doors ]

This particular pairing of photographs is a light-hearted offering, showing the Pope being quietly and graciously assisted down the steps of St Peter’s to the open air altar, while the Archbishop of Canterbury must pretty much force his way into his own cathedral with three strong blows from his pastoral staff… both ceremonies having taken place over the last few days.

The gesture of beating on the church door, requesting permission to enter, is in fact an old one. Here is video of the same ceremony, as enacted on the death of the Archduke Otto von Hapsburg, when the body of that exalted aristocrat and devout Catholic was brought the Capuchin Cloister to be buried:

The text of the ceremony proceeds in a beautifully constructed threefold fashion. First, the Archduke begs admission to the church under his hereditary stiles and titles:

Prior: Who desires entry?

MC: Otto of Austria; once Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary; Royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia, of Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Galicia, Lodomeria and Illyria; Grand Duke of Tuscany and Cracow; Duke of Lorraine, Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola and the Bukowina; Grand Prince of Transylvania, Margrave of Moravia; Duke of Upper and Lower Silesia, of Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Guastalla, of O?wi?cim and Zator, Teschen, Friaul, Dubrovnik and Zadar; Princely Count of Habsburg and Tyrol, of Kyburg, Gorizia and Gradisca; Prince of Trent and Brixen; Margrave of Upper and Lower Lusatia and Istria; Count of Hohenems, Feldkirch, Bregenz, Sonnenburg etc.; Lord of Trieste, Kotor and Windic March, Grand Voivod of the Voivodeship of Serbia etc. etc.

It is not enough:

Prior: We do not know him.

On the second occasion, he presents himself in terms of his own accomplishments and honors:

(The MC knocks thrice)

Prior: Who desires entry?

MC: Dr. Otto von Habsburg, President and Honorary President of the Paneuropean Union, Member and quondam President of the European Parliament, honorary doctor of many universities, honorary citizen of many cities in Central Europe, member of numerous venerable academies and institutes, recipient of high civil and ecclesiastical honours, awards, and medals, which were given him in recognition of his decades-long struggle for the freedom of peoples for justice and right.

And again it is not enough, it is not simple enough:

Prior: We do not know him.

(The MC knocks thrice)

This third and final time, the appeal is simple and all too human:

Prior: Who desires entry?

MC: Otto, a mortal and sinful man.

Prior: Then let him come in.

And thus, ceremonially, neither his high position nor his accomplishments suffice the man to enter the church, whose threshold requires humility…

I am, I suppose, at the antipodes from many of my fellows these days — a futurist who nonetheless glories in ceremonial and tradition, believing that gestures such as the knocking on the door just described carry a symbolic impact which can move us deeply.

Accordingly, I am going to append here the two booklets containing the respective orders of service in Canterbury and Rome these last few days:

First in temporal sequence, the Mass for the inauguration of the Pontificate of Pope Francis, March 19, 2013. including his installation in the chair of St Peter in Rome.

Second, the Inauguration of the Ministry of the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Portal Welby, including his enthronement in the seat of his predecessor, St Augustine.

The entire ceremony of the installation of Pope Francis has been made available on YouTube, and while I do not expect many Zenpundit readers to watch it in its 4-hour entirety, I am first posting here a single excerpt, the Te Deum by Tomás Luis de Victoria sung at the conclusion of the Mass of Inauguration:

Here, for those who may be interested, and for the record, is the telecast in full:

I have only been able to find a severely edited BBC version of the enthronement ceremony in Canterbury, which gives little sense of the majesty of the English ritual and choral music —

There was also some African drumming, as can be seen in this (far shorter) Telegraph video:

By way of comparison, here is a surviving video of the coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II in London, about sixty years ago:

I would like on some other occasion to walk you through one or more such great rituals as these, exploring the depths and symbolic meanings of such things as the red coloration of a cardinal’s robes, signifying a sworn willingness to die for the faith, and the anointing and robing of a British monarch, symbolizing her (or his) quasi-priestly function as Supreme Governor of the church…

The details of such rituals — strong statements uttered in a moment of high purpose, such as “Be so merciful that you be not too remiss, so execute justice that you forget not mercy” in the English coronation rite — can shape a lifetime, and a people.

4 Responses to “A tale of two cities: Rome and Canterbury”

  1. Lexington Green Says:

    The ceremony preceding the burial of the last Habsburg is beautiful, intensely Catholic, and a milestone in the dissolution of the West.  The Habsburgs were the last Holy Roman Emperors, their rule had inhering in it some of the prestige of the heirship of the Caesars. The burial of the last human vestige of the ancient political unity of the West brings twelve centuries to an end, that began with the coronation of Charlemagne on Christmas day, Anno Domini 800.  In the book The Phoenix Land by Miklos Banffy, there is a depiction of the same ceremony in 1916, when Franz Joseph was buried, in the midst of the tragic war that was destroying his empire, almost a century ago.  Modernity destroys and consumers things it cannot replace, then wonders why amidst its material triumphs, for so many people, life is empty, or politics or money-seeking frantically invade the spaces reserved for better things, by relentless activity to drown out the signal that it does not want to hear, that if the modern premises are true, then all is nullity, sensation followed by nullity.  The only country I have ever felt patriotism for besides my own is the Dual Monarchy.  It would have been worth fighting for.  Too bad, at the end, it was led by imbeciles.

  2. zen Says:

    The Hapsburgs were undone by an inability to provide a unifying rationale to modernize their diverse realms and the sheer complexity – which under Charles V encompassed the geographic vastness of the Holy Roman, Spanish and Portuguese empires. They did represent the dream of Western unification – it is no accident that Napoleon at the peak of his power and ruling most of Europe directly, by proxy or holding states as clients, chose to wed a Hapsburg, the oldest and most prestigious imperial line in Europe after the end of the Byzantines

  3. Charles Cameron Says:

    I’m just home after a two-day 800 mile trip and a bit wiped out — but just wanted to say I’m glad someone else among my friends found the Hapsburg requiem and funeral inspiring.  I managed to swipe ten videos from YouTube, including the liturgy with Michael Haydn mass and a very sweet Salve Regina.

  4. L. C. Rees Says:

    I shed no tears for the Habsburg state.

    My great-great grandfather Thomas Biesinger was a Swabian from the Black Forest region of Wurttemberg. He was baptized a member of my church in 1862. GGG Thomas emigrated to Utah 3 years later.

    In 1883, GGG Thomas was called on a mission to Austria-Hungary. He was the first LDS missionary to preach the Good News in Bohemia. For his efforts, he was imprisoned for 68 days in a dismal Prague jail. After being convicted of violating an ordinance he was unaware of, he agreed to plead guilty but only on the “firm condition that they [the judges] understood that he had delivered his message from God to their city and nation for their salvation and that the responsibility for Prague’s rejection of the gospel rested on the authorities of the nation”. He shared his cell with a socialist and a murderer. The socialist was better company.

    After his release, hounded by police and media, he was unable to make more headway. GGG Thomas was, however, blessed to become the first LDS missionary to preach the Good News in Hungary and baptized both of his two accusers before leaving the empire for America.

    He prayed for another chance to preach the Good News in Bohemia. And he was so blessed. I retain copies of newspaper clippings from fall 1918 kept by the family as a memento of Providence wiping the Habsburg state from the earth. GGG Thomas was called in 1928 to open a new mission in the new Republic of Czechoslovakia. He won permission to preach the Good News from the Czech authorities. At 83, he was the oldest proselyting missionary my church had called to serve up to that time.

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Year Of Construction 1980
No Of Rooms 4
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Northing 805928
Easting 393838
Altitude 31 Meters
Postcode Area AB
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Postcode Sector AB11 6

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Property Name 29 Aboyne Road
Complete Address 29 Aboyne Road, ABERDEEN, AB10 7BS
Type Residential
Property Structure Flat
Growth Rate in Valuation 7% of average growth in price per year.
Estimated Valuation £384,000 - £523,000
Size 800 Sq Ft.
Year Of Construction 1970
No Of Rooms 2
No Of Baths 1
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Aberdeen City, Airyhall/Broomhill/Garthdee, Scotland
AB10 7BS

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The locality type is large urban area. According to the 2011 census, 32.11% of the people in the locality are below poverty. The postcode AB10 7BS has a population of 48. The locality has 20 properties. Out of which 20 are residential properties and 0 business properties. There is only 1 school in 10km radius of the property.

Property Location Information

Latitude 57.12210900
Longitude -2.13524200
Northing 803472
Easting 391910
Altitude 40 Meters
Postcode Area AB
Postcode District AB10
Postcode Sector AB10 7

Administrative Areas

Country Scotland
County N/A
District Aberdeen City
Ward Airyhall/Broomhill/Garthdee
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Constituency Aberdeen South
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Schools Nearby

School Name Postcode
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