Salim al-Naqqash

Salim al-Naqqash — Salim ibn Khalil al-Naqqash — (died 1884) was a Lebanese writer and journalist. Born in Beirut, he emigrated to Alexandria in 1876 and there, with his friend Adib Ishaq, founded a succession of Arabic newspapers in the years when Egypt's press was being born: Misr in 1877, al-Tijara in 1878 and al-Mahrousa in 1880. He wrote Misr lil-Misriyyin, "Egypt for the Egyptians", an account of the Urabi revolt in nine parts, and died in Alexandria. No Urdu or English Wikipedia article on him exists; this page rests on the Arabic article, which itself rests on al-Zirikli's al-A'lam, and on Wikidata. ^{1 2}

The record is short because the sources are short. The Arabic article, citing al-Zirikli and Baalbaki's biographical dictionary, gives his parentage (son of Khalil), his Beirut birth, the move to Alexandria in 1876 — the same migration, in the same year, as his collaborator Adib Ishaq — the three newspapers, the nine-part book on the Urabi events, and his death in Alexandria in 1301 AH / 1884 CE. It gives no birth year, and neither does Wikidata; the year 1850 carried in the commissioning queue is found in neither source and is not recorded. He should not be confused with Marun al-Naqqash, the Beirut theatre pioneer of the previous generation, who has his own entry in the queue. ^{1 2}

The sources say nothing at all. The Arabic article makes no religion statement and files him under no religion category, and Wikidata carries no religion value for him. His faith is therefore recorded as unknown in his data record — by complete absence of evidence, with nothing inferred from his name, his family or his milieu. ^{1 2}