| LC control no. | nr 91019265 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Fawwāz, Zaynab, 1859 or 1860-1914 |
| Variant(s) | ʻĀmilī, Zaynab bint Yūsuf Fawwāz, 1859 or 1860-1914 Fawwāz, Zaynab, 1859 or 60-1914 Lubnānīyah, Zaynab bint ʻAlī Fawwāz al-ʻĀmilīyah, 1859 or 1860-1914 فواز، زينب فواز، زينب، 1859 or 1860-1914 فواز، زينب، 1859 أو 60-1914 فواز، زينب، 18601914 |
| Associated country | Egypt |
| Birth date | [1859,1860] |
| Death date | 1914 |
| Place of birth | Tibnīn (Lebanon) |
| Place of death | Egypt |
| Affiliation | The Nile (Newspaper) |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists Poets Dramatists Biographers |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | Her Riwāyat ḥusn al-ʻawāqib ... 1899: t.p. (al-Sayyidah Zaynab Fawwāz) Ziriklī (Zaynab Fawwāz; Zaynab bint ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn ibn ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Ḥasan ...; 1276-1332/1860-1914; d. 20 Ṣafar 1332=19 Kānūn al-Thānī 1914) al-Durr al-manthūr fī ṭabaqāt rabbāt al-khudūr, 1999: t.p. (Zaynab bint ʻAlī Fawwāz al-ʻĀmilīyah al-Lubnānīyah) Zaynab Fawwāz, 2000: p. 51 (Zaynab bint ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn Fawwāz, adībat Lubnan̄īyah ibnat Jabal ʻĀmil (s. Lebanon), 1847-1914; intellectual and writer) p. 81 (Zaynab bint Yūsuf Fawwāz al-ʻĀmilī) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed December 23, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Fawwaz, Zaynab; Lebanese-Egyptian novelist; women's rights advocate, biographer; born c.1850 Tibnin, Lebanon; born into a family of limited means, she became part of the household of a local feudal ruler; moved to Egypt met and began to work with the literary polymath and newspaper publisher Hasan Husni Pasha al-Tuwayrani, his newspaper al-Nil (The Nile) published many of her best-known polemical essays in the 1890s; author of poems and plays; advocate for women; authored a biographical dictionary of women of the world, al-Durr al-manthur fi tabaqatrabbat al-khudur (Scattered Pearls Among the Classes of Cloistered Ladies) appearing (1894); wanted to send her biographical dictionary to the Women's Library at the 1893 Chicago Exposition; died in 1914 in Egypt) |
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