Kamal Salibi

Kamal Suleiman Salibi () (2 Mei 19291 September 2011) 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. Ia merupakan seorang sarjana seumur hidup, yang mengiprahkan hidupnya ke dalam buku-buku.

Karier 
Lahir dari sebuah keluarga Protestan di Beirut, keluarga Salibi berasal dari desa Lebanon Bhamdoun di Lebanon Mandat Prancis. Setelah belajar di sekolah misionaris Prancis di Bhamdoun dan Broummana, 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) dimana ia mendapatkan gelar PhD-nya dalam bidang sejarah pada 1953 dibawah bimbingan sejarawan Bernard Lewis. Disertasinya kemudian diterbitkan dengan judul Maronite Historians of Mediaeval Lebanon.

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

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

Kelahiran 1929
Kematian 2011