Francis Marrash

Francis bin Fathallah bin Nasrallah Marrash (Arabic : / ALA-LC : Fransis bin Fat Allah bin Narallah Marrash ; June 1836 – 1873), also known as Francis al-Marrash or Francis Marrash al-Halabi, was a Syrian writer and poet of the Nahda movement—the Arabic renaissance—and a physician. Most of his works revolve around science, history and religion, analysed under an epistemological light. He travelled through the Middle East and France in his youth, and after some medical training and a year of practice in his native Aleppo, during which he wrote several works, he enrolled in a medical school in Paris ; yet, declining health and growing blindness forced him to return to Aleppo, where he produced more literary works until his early death.