Books review of author Bisher Faris pdf
Bishr Fares is a Lebanese writer, playwright and poet, and a researcher in Islamic heritage. He was born in Lebanon in 1907 AD, and his birth name was Edward; It is the name that required him until he obtained his doctorate from the Sorbonne University in Paris in 1932 AD, and it was said that “Ahmed Zaki Pasha” was the one who called him “Bisher”. He immigrated to Egypt at the beginning of his life, and there he received his primary and secondary education, then he went to France to continue his higher education, where he obtained a doctorate degree with a thesis entitled “The Presentation of the Arabs of the Pre-Islamic era”, then he visited Germany to learn about its arts and sciences. After his return to Egypt, he assumed the secretariat of the Egyptian Scientific Academy and taught at Cairo University. He was well off, and this helped him to dedicate himself to research and writing. He published several research papers in Arabic and French; Including: “Visibility”, “Christian Swans and Islamic Features”, “The Secret of Islamic Decoration”, and others. He also authored two plays: “The Road’s Crossroads” and “Front of the Unseen,” and one short story collection, “Misunderstanding,” in addition to a book entitled “Mabahith Arabiya.” His literature was influenced by poetry and prose by the French Symbolists School. His texts are steeped in symbolism, in which reason and feeling struggle, and verbal manipulation abounds, while maintaining the integrity and smoothness of the language. Which made him a pioneer of symbolism in Arabic literature. As for the other factor that affected his style, it is his Sufi and his interest in Arabic lines and ancient Islamic images, which inherited his book as an engineering and distinctive abstraction, and a special linguistic ability that made it easy for him. He died in Egypt in 1963 AD, at the age of fifty-six years.