Muḥammad Ǧamīl Bayhum (1887–1978): historia, filozofia, polityka
Muḥammad Ǧamīl Bayhum (1887-1978): History, Philosophy, Politics

Author(s): Marek M. Dziekan
Subject(s): Cultural history
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Muḥammad Ǧamīl Bayhum; Arab World; Lebanon; Islam; history; philosophy; politics
Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the life and work of a Lebanese scholar and politician Muḥammad Ǧamīl Bayhum (a pupil of Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes), whose activity is little known in Western Oriental Studies. Despite his very important role in the 20th century social and political life of Lebanon and the Middle East as a whole, we will not find any mention of him in the most important studies devoted to the revival of Arab social, religious and political thought in the twentieth century. He was co-founder of the National Library of Lebanon, a member of the Lebanese Academy of Sciences, and a defender of women’s rights. This study is based primarily on Arabic sources and Bayhūm’s own works. The article covers (1) the detailed description of the life and activity of M. Bayhum and the presentation and the analysis of two most important, in my opinion, books of him: (2) "Al-Ḥalqa al-mafqūda fī tārī Al-Arab" ("The Lost Epoch in the History of the Arabs", 1950) and (3) "Al-ʿUrūba wa-aš-šuʿūbiyyāt al-ḥadīṯa" ("Arabism and Contemporary Particularisms", 1957). These books show Bayhum as a historian and political thinker. The paper ends with a "Conclusion".

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