1. Anastase-Marie al-Karmali was a founding member of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo.
17 Facts About Anastase-Marie al-Karmali
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Anastase-Marie al-Karmali is considered to have been "one of the artisans of the Nahda".
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Anastase-Marie al-Karmali graduated from the in 1882, at the age of 15, and was then appointed as teacher of the Arabic language at the Carmelite residence in Basra by the superior of the Carmelite mission.
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Anastase-Marie al-Karmali then went to Montpellier, France, to study philosophy and theology.
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Anastase-Marie al-Karmali took his simple vow in June 1889 and his solemn vow in 1892.
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Anastase-Marie al-Karmali was ordained a priest on 22 October 1894, and took the name Anastase-Marie de Saint Elie.
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Anastase-Marie al-Karmali would become known in Arabic as "al-Karmali", meaning 'the Carmelite'.
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In 1900 and 1901, Anastase-Marie al-Karmali published two articles about the Mandaeans, a community with which he would become "deeply involved".
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In June 1908, Anastase-Marie al-Karmali was asked to escort Louis Massignon from Baghdad to Beirut after Massignon's captivity.
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In 1911, Anastase-Marie al-Karmali got involved in the academic debates which followed the discoveries of forged manuscripts of the Yazidi Book of Revelation and the Yazidi Black Book.
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Also in 1911, Anastase-Marie al-Karmali founded Lughat al-Arab, a "literary, scientific historical monthly magazine".
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In 1914, as World War I had started, the Ottomans accused Anastase-Marie al-Karmali of being a spy and exiled him to Kayseri in Central Anatolia, where he was retained until 1916.
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Around 1920, Anastase-Marie al-Karmali became the first librarian of the in Baghdad, and introduced a system of modern management.
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Anastase-Marie al-Karmali helped develop the Library's collection, donating printed materials from his private collection, when other collections in foreign languages remained in the monastery library.
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On 8 October 1933, Anastase-Marie al-Karmali was appointed as a member of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo by Fuad I of Egypt.
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Anastase-Marie al-Karmali took part in it from its inaugural session of 1934 onwards.
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Shortly before his death, Anastase-Marie al-Karmali donated 2,500 books and 1,500 manuscripts from his personal library to the Iraq Museum Library.