Khayr al-Din al-Asadi

Khayr al-Din al-Asadi was a Syrian historian and a recipient of the Order of Civil Merit of the Syrian Arab Republic; First Class. He was born in 1900 in Aleppo, Syria, and died there in 1971. His father, Sheikh Omar “Assad” Ruslan,

He was first educated at Shams al-Ma'arif school, and Al-Rashidiya school. Later, his father enrolled him in the Ottoman school. He was a teacher of Arabic at Farukia School

In 1961, poet Sulaiman al-Issa recommended that Al-Asadi be nominated for the State Recognition Award, but he never received the award during his lifetime.

In 1971, he moved to a nursing home in Aleppo and died there on 29 December 1971.

Al-Asadi was a member of the Arab Writers Union and Al Adeyat Archaeological Society. As he was interested in collecting antiquities, artifacts, pictures and music recordings, in 1951, he began working on his encyclopedia and finished it in 1956, when he continued his scientific expeditions visiting Yugoslavia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Austria. (original: Mawsūʻat Ḥalab al-muqāranah) and a poetry book he called Songs of the Sufi Dome.

His biggest achievement is said to be Comparative Encyclopedia of Aleppo; an encyclopedia of linguistics that took him 30 years to make. The first edition of the encyclopedia was published by the University of Aleppo in 1981, nearly a decade after his death.

His works also include a manuscript, Aleppo's Neighborhoods and Markets, which was edited by Abd al-Fattah Qal'aji, The Scientific Press, Aleppo: 1923. Sky (article). Aleppo: The Linguistic Aspect of the Word. Al Dhad Press, Aleppo: 1951. The Dome Songs. posthumously.