Asad Rustum
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| name = Asad Rustum
| native_name = {{lang|ar|أسد رستم}}
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| image = Assad Rutum portrait.png
| native_name_lang = Arabic
| birth_name = Asad bin Jibra'il Rustum Muja'is
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1897|06|04|df=y}}
| birth_place = Dhour El Choueir, Lebanon
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1965|06|23|1897|06|04|df=y}}
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| occupation = Historian, academic, and writer
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Asad bin Jibrāʼīl Rustum Mujāʻiṣ ({{langx|ar|أسد بن جبرائيل رستم مجاعص}};{{cite book|author=Al-Ziriklī|author-link=Al-Zirikli|title=Al-Aʻlām|language=ar}} 4 June 1897 – 23 June 1965) was a Lebanese historian, academic and writer. He published more than 15 books on the history of the Middle East.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=كتب ومؤلفات أسد رستم|url=https://www.hindawi.org/contributors/96461919|access-date=2020-10-08|website=Hindawi Foundation|language=ar|archive-date=2020-10-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201008150305/https://www.hindawi.org/contributors/96461919/|url-status=live}}
Life
Rustum was born in Dhour El Choueir on 4 June 1897. He obtained his bachelor's and master's degree from the American University of Beirut in 1919, then a PhD in History of the Middle East from the University of Chicago in 1923. He then went back to Beirut, where he taught History of the Middle East at the American University of Beirut until his resignation in 1943.{{Cite web|last=Mounir|first=Mahmoud|date=7 June 2019|title=صدر قديماً: "الروم" لـ أسد رستم|url=https://www.alaraby.co.uk/books/2019/6/7/%D8%B5%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%85-%D9%84%D9%80-%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%AF-%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%85|access-date=2020-10-08|publisher=The New Arab|website=alaraby.co.uk|language=ar|archive-date=2019-12-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191223181159/https://www.alaraby.co.uk//books/2019/6/7/%D8%B5%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%85-%D9%84%D9%80-%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%AF-%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%85|url-status=live}} He was awarded the Order of Civil Merit of the Syrian Arab Republic and the Lebanese order of merit in 1964.
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Category:People from Dhour El Choueir
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Category:American University of Beirut alumni
Category:20th-century Lebanese historians
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Category:Recipients of the Order of Merit (Lebanon)
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