As'ad al-Shidyaq

As'ad al-Shidyaq (1798–1830) was a Lebanese Protestant Christian cleric and preacher.[1] He was the elder brother of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq.

Originally a Maronite seminary student, Al-Shidyaq was the first Levantine convert to Protestantism as a result of American missionary efforts in the region.[2] Around 1820, As'ad al-Shidyaq encountered Jonas King, a Protestant missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; eventually As'ad became Protestant. He was excommunicated under the automatic excommunication edict issued by the Maronite Patriarch Youssef Hobaish (1823–1845), who sought to prevent all dealings with the Protestant missionaries. As'ad was later detained for years in the Monastery of Qannoubine in the Qadisha valley, where he died in 1830.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Khabariyat As`ad al-Shidyaq alladhi udtuhida li-ajl iqrarihi fi'l-haqq. [Account of As,ad al-Shidyaq who was persecuted for his steadfastness in the truth].Malta, [Anglican] Church Missionary Society [for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions], 1833. 12mo. With all text in Arabic and the wrapper with a decorated frame built up from typographic ornaments. Original publisher's letterpress printed wrapper". www.vialibri.net. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  2. ^ Sturm, Tristan; Frantzman, Seth (May 2015). "Religious Geopolitics of Palestinian Christianity: Palestinian Christian Zionists, Palestinian Liberation Theologists, and American Missions to Palestine" (PDF). Middle Eastern Studies. 51 (3): 433–451. JSTOR 24585898.
  3. ^ For more information, see Shidyāq, A., & Bird, I. (1833). Brief Memoir of Asaad Esh Shidiak: An Arab Young Man, of the Maronite Roman Catholic Church. Boston: Crocker & Brewster, printers. and Bustānī, B. i. B., & Shidyāq, A. i. Y. (1992). Qiṣṣat Asʻad al-Shidyāq: munāẓarah wa-ḥawār multahab ḥawla ḥurrīyat al-ḍamīr. Rāʼs Bayrūt: Dār al-Ḥamrāʼ.


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