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The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon

by Habbeeb Risk Allah Effendi

Imprint: Garnet Authors: Habbeeb Risk Allah Effendi Categories: Folios Archive ISBN: 9781859641637 Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2001 RRP:
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‘“The Thistle that is in Lebanon” is the harassed, weak, yet simple disciple of the Eastern Church; and “the Cedar that was in Lebanon” is the true Church of Christ, whose seeds were first derived from [Syria’s] Holy shores, and are now firmly rooted in England. The Thistle has sent to ask thy daughter, Enlightenment, in marriage to her son, Simplicity. O refuse her not! lest the wild beast in Lebanon should tread down the Thistle and obtain the ascendancy.”’

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Habbeeb Risk Allah Effendi A nineteenth-century Syrian Christian raised in Lebanon, Habeeb Risk Allah Effendi was a traveller, émigré and doctor whose charming, anecdotal traveller’s tales take us throughout his troubled native land and on to Egypt, Malta, France and England. From pirates, belles and balls to the status of women and the role of health care in society, Effendi’s position as outsider lend his observations of his own and other cultures a unique perspective.
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