Profesor Kamal Salibi
Salibi pada April 2009
Lahir	Kamal Suleiman Salibi (1929-05-02)2 Mei 1929 Beirut, Lebanon
Meninggal	1 September 2011(2011-09-01) (umur 82) Beirut, Lebanon
Kebangsaan	Lebanon
Pekerjaan	Sejarawan, akademisi, peneliti

Kamal Suleiman Salibi (bahasa Arab: كمال سليمان الصليبيcode: ar is deprecated ) (2 Mei 1929 – 1 September 2011)^[1][2] adalah seorang sejarawan Lebanon, profesor sejarah di Universitas Amerika Beirut (AUB) dan Direktur Pendiri (kemudian Presiden Kehormatan) Institut Pembelajaran Antar-Keyakinan Kerajaan di Amman, Yordania.^[3] Ia merupakan seorang sarjana seumur hidup, yang mengiprahkan hidupnya ke dalam buku-buku.^[4]

Karier

Lahir dari sebuah keluarga Protestan di Beirut,^[5] keluarga Salibi berasal dari desa Lebanon Bhamdoun di Lebanon Mandat Prancis. Setelah belajar di sekolah misionaris Prancis di Bhamdoun dan Broummana,^[6] ia menyelesaikan pendidikan menengahnya di Prep School di Beirut (sekarang International College), dan gelar BA-nya dalam bidang Ilmu Pengetahuan Sejarah dan Politik dari AUB, sebelum berpindah ke Sekolah Pembelajaran Dunia Timur dan Afrika, SOAS (Universitas London) di mana ia mendapatkan gelar PhD-nya dalam bidang sejarah pada 1953 dibawah bimbingan sejarawan Bernard Lewis.^[7] Disertasinya kemudian diterbitkan dengan judul Maronite Historians of Mediaeval Lebanon.^[8]

Karya

• Maronite Historians of Mediaeval Lebanon, Beirut, AUB Oriental Series 34, 1959
• The Modern History of Lebanon, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1965
• Crossroads to Civil War, Lebanon 1958-1976, Beirut, Caravan Books, 1976
• Syria under Islam: Empire on Trial 634-1097, Beirut, Caravan Books, 1977
• A History of Arabia, Beirut, Caravan Books, 1980
• The Bible Came from Arabia, London, Jonathan Cape, 1985
• Secrets of the Bible People, London, Saqi Books, 1988
• Who Was Jesus?: Conspiracy in Jerusalem, London, I.B. Tauris, 1988
• A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered, London, I.B. Tauris, 1988
• The Historicity of Biblical Israel, London, NABU Publications, 1998
• The Historicity of Biblical Israel (edisi kedua), Beirut, Dar Nelson, 2009
• The Modern History of Jordan, London, I.B. Tauris, 1993
• A Bird on an Oak Tree (Arabic طائر على سنديانة), Amman, Ashshoroq Publishers, 2002

Catatan

• Anderson, Brooke Friends remember Lebanese historian for his generosity and storytelling,' The Daily Star, 1 September 2011
• Beeston, A.F.L., Review of "The Bible Came from Arabia", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1988, pp. 389–93)
• Berry, Steve. "The Alexandria Link" Hodder & Stoughton, 2007; fiction. A thriller using Salibi’s theory as a plot device.
• Cardinal, P., "La Bible et L'Arabie", Revue d'études Palestiniennes vol. 7 No. 26 (winter 1988) pp. 63–70
• Dahlberg, Bruce, Comments in the Ancient Near East Digest, 1994.
• Parfitt, Tudor, "The hijacking of Israel", The Sunday Times (London) 27 October 1985
• Rabinowitz, Itamar, 'Eulogy for a Lebanese intellectual:On the death of historian Kamal Salibi,' in Haaretz, 29 September 2011.
• Salamé-Sarkis, H., "Et si la Bible venait d'Arabie?", Berytus, Beirut 1985 XXXIII pp. 143–165
• Sbaiti, Nadya and Mikdashi, Maya, 'Kamal Salibi (1929-2011),' in Jadaliyya, 6 September 2011
• Segev, Tom, 'The Makings of History / Myths and facts,' in Haaretz 16 September 2011.
• Towner, W. Sibley, Review of "The Bible Came from Arabia", Middle East Journal 1988, 42 pp. 511–513

Pranala luar

• http://www.cwo.com/~thowoods/salibi.htm more information and pictures of Asir.
• Phillip C. Hammond's 1990 Review of The Bible Came from Arabia, in The International Journal of Middle East Studies (August, 1990)
• http://baheyeldin.com/science/kamal-salibi-and-the-israel-from-yemen-theory.html gives lots of links.
• Kamal Salibi's personal blog .

Referensi tentang teori sejarah Yahudi-nya

Al-Ahram weekly, a major Egyptian publication, briefly alluded to it Diarsipkan 20000829082353 di www.ahram.org.eg Galat: URL arsip tidak dikenal

Referensi lain

• Biella, Joan (2004) Dictionary of Old South Arabian – Sabaean Dialect Eisenbrauns, Winola Lake, Indiana, USA
• Hubbard, David (1956) The Literary Sources of the Kebra Nagast Ph.D. dissertation.,St.Andrews University, Scotland
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Ge’ez Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, Germany
• Rabin, Chaim (1951) Ancient West Arabian London: Taylor’s Foreign Press
• Savoie, Denis (2009), Sundials: Design, Construction, and Use Springer Praxis, ISBN 978-0-387-09801-2 (see pp. 163–164)
• Schneider, Roger (1973) Deux inscriptions subarabiques du Tigre. Leiden, Netherlands: Bibliotheca Orientalis, 30, 1973, 385-387
• Ullendorff, Edward (1956) Hebraic Jewish Elements in Abyssinian (Monophysite) Christianity in Journal of Semitic Studies, 1, no.3, 216-256
• Ullendorff, Edward (1960) The Ethiopians London: Oxford University Press
• Ullendorff, Edward (1968) Ethiopia and the Bible London: Oxford University Press