George Jordac
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| Born | George Gordac 1931 Marjayoun, Lebanon[1] |
| Died | 2014 |
| Occupation | Poet , writer |
| Language | Arabic |
| Nationality | Lebanese |
| Period | 1931-2014[2] |
| Notable works | The Voice of Human Justice (Sautu'l 'Adalati'l Insaniyah)[3] |
George Jordac (Arabic: جرج جرداق; born 1931) was an Christian author who in his own words has spent four decades of research and studies about Ali. The results of his research are a few volumes of books about Ali. For the first time he spoke about Ali ( and his character. [4][5]
Life and Education
George Jordac was born in 1931 from an Orthodox Christian family with a Qahtani pedigree in Al-Jadida town in the Marjayoun area, south of Lebanon. He finished his primary educations in a school in this area. As he himself says, he frequently ran away from the school, going to the nature to read Nahj al-balagha, the Diwan (poetry-collection) of al-Mutanabī (the well-known Arab poet), and Majma' al-baḥrayn by Shaykh Nāṣī al-Yāzijī. He learned about Nahj al-balagha by his brother Fuad Jordac (an engineer, philologist, and poet). When he was 13 years old, George had memorized much of Nahj al-balagha and the other two books. George Jordac studied in the college of Batrukiyya in Beirut. He died on November 5, 2014.[6][7]
Positions
After he graduated from the university, George taught Arabic literature and Arabic philosophy in some schools and universities in Beirut, and at the same time, he translated and wrote some articles for Lebanese newspapers and magazines. He wrote in newspapers such as Al-jumhuri al-jadid, Al-hurriyya, al-ṣayyād, Al-shabaka, Nisā', Al-kafaḥ al-'arabī, Al-amn, and some Arabic newspapers printed in Paris, and for two years in Al-watan and Al-ra'y al-ām, both printed in Kuwait. Here are some of his works:
1. Imam 'Ali (a), the voice of human justice, in five volumes: [8] 'Ali and human rights 'Ali and the French revolution 'Ali and Socrates 'Ali and his time 'Ali and the Arabs [9] 2. Palaces and Slums
3. Saladin and Richard the Lion Heart (a historical novel in about 1000 pages)
4. The Arabic genius
5. Girls and mirrors
6. The faces of Koton
7. Donkey talks
8. The Paris chaos
9. An adventure and thieves (a play)
10. The singer
11. The governor
12. Imru' al-Qays and the world
13. Noonday stars
14. Cabarets talks
15. I am oriental (poems)
16. The displaced (a translation of Maxim Gorky's book)
17. A translation of Mao Tse-tong's poems
18. A translation of Maxim Gorky's My fellow.
19. Wagner and the woman
20. Masterpieces of Nahj al-balāgha
George Jordac's view of Ali
George Jordac:" I have always believed that the status of Ali (AS) is above the historical or political frameworks. In my view, if the world’s intellectuals and authors just study Nahj al-Balagha and understand its concepts, masterpieces will be created about him but the Arabic and Islamic world have confined studying on his character, a character which I believe was a great reformist leader."[10][11]
References
- ^ "رحيل كاتب صوت العدالة الانسانية .. جورج جرداق". Retrieved 8 November 2015.
- ^ "Christian Lebanese Writer George Jordac Dies". 8 November 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
- ^ "مسيحيته لم تمنعه من القول إن علياً (ع) صوت العدالة الإنسانية ..!". Retrieved 8 November 2015.
- ^ "Christian Lebanese Writer George Jordac Dies". 8 November 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
- ^ "رحيل كاتب صوت العدالة الانسانية .. جورج جرداق". Retrieved 8 November 2015.
- ^ "Interview: George Jordac". 8 November 2014.
- ^ "Renowned Christian author Jordac, the lover of Imam Ali passes away". Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- ^ "رحيل كاتب صوت العدالة الانسانية .. جورج جرداق". Retrieved 8 November 2015.
- ^ "Interview: George Jordac". 8 November 2014.
- ^ http://en.abna24.com/service/middle-east-west-asia/archive/2014/11/09/650154/story.html
- ^ George Jordac, The Voice of Human Justice