Abd al-Masih al-Antaki

Life Abd al-Masih al-Antaki was born in Aleppo, Ottoman Syria, He was Greek Orthodox. He went to university in France then returned to Aleppo.

In 1897, Antaki founded the magazine Ash-Shudhūr ( 'The Fragments') in Aleppo. According to Reilly, "like al-Shahba its tone was didactic, but Antaki (unlike al-Shahba) saw modern Europe and particularly France as a model for an idealized concept of modernity – middle class, 'rational,' and largely free of internal contradictions and tensions. According to Watenpaugh, "a recurrent theme in al-Antaki's essays and those he digested from other Arabic publications and European literature is the clear valuation of things Western as inherently superior."

Antaki later relocated to Cairo, where journalists were less at risk of being censored. There, he started the periodical Al-ʻUmrān in 1902.

Antaki revised and prefaced an edition of Francis Marrash's Ghabat al-haqq which was printed in Cairo in 1922.

Antaki died in Egypt.

Writings Nayl al-Amānī fī d-Dustūr al-Uthmānī An-Nahḍa sh-Sharqiyya ( 'The Eastern Renaissance') Dīwān Urf al-Khizām fī Maāthir as-Sāda l-Kirām Ad-Durar al-Ḥisān fī Manẓūmāt wa-Madāiḥ Mawlānā Muizz as-Salṭana Sardār Arfa Sumuww ash-Shaykh (with Khazʻal Khān [amir of Muḥammara]): Manẓūmāt wa-madāʼih ash-Shaykh Khazʻal Khān (Cairo: Maṭbaʻat al-ʻArab, 1326 H. = 1908 M.) (with Karīm Khalīl Thābit and ʻAbd ar-Raḥmān al-Kawākibī): Nujūm az-zuhr fī rusūm aʻyān Miṣr (Maṭbaʻat Jarīdat Miṣr, 1905) Riḥlat as-Sulṭān fī riyāḍ al-Baḥrayn (Maṭbaʻat at-Tawfīq, 1916) Shahīd al-jaljala (Cairo: Idārat Jarīdat al-ʻUmrān, 1904) Tārīkh shiʻrī li-ṣadr al-Islām (Cairo: Maṭbaʻat Raʻmasīs, 1338 H. = 1920 M.)