Wasif Barudi Books

Wassef bin Ali bin Muhammad Al-Baroudi, one of the pioneers of education in Lebanon and the Arab world; He had many valuable reformist ideas in the areas related to educational curricula and methods of education and guidance, as well as his ideas about the organization of school inspection from a technical point of view in particular. He was born in the city of Tripoli in Lebanon in 1897, belongs to a religious family. He was educated in the schools of his town, especially in the “Sultanieh” school in Beirut. He received his Arabic and jurisprudential sciences on the authority of Hajj al-Islam Sheikh Muhammad al-Husseini, who had a great impact on his intellectual life. He married his daughter and had two sons. After he finished his studies; He was appointed as a teacher at the Sultaniya School in 1918 AD, and because of his scientific excellence and efficiency in the field of teaching; He was sent on a scientific mission to Paris that lasted a few months, during which he trained for the school inspection, and this was done at the Saint-Claude Institute. When he returned to Beirut; He was appointed as an assistant inspector at the Ministry of Education in 1929, and was also entrusted with giving lessons at the Teachers’ House and the Teachers’ House in Beirut, then at the Higher Teachers’ Institute at UNESCO, as well as entrusting him with the Department of Inspection in secondary education. He wrote many educational reports and suggestions, in addition to authoring a number of novels and educational and social books, including: “Education is Revolution and Liberation,” which is in three parts, “Articles in Education,” “Youth’s Awareness,” and “This Crown.” And “Youth Between Idealism and Reality,” “The Official School,” “Social Problems and Psychology,” “Renewal and Launching,” and “Formalism and Its Spirit in Religions.” Among them, we mention: “Arabic Literature in the Athars of Its Flags,” which is in three parts, and was authored jointly by “Fouad Al-Bustani” and “Khalil Taqi Al-Din.” Wassef al-Baroudi died in 1962, and a ceremony was held in honor of his memory, which brought together great men of Arab thought and culture, and the dean of Arabic literature, Taha Hussein, was among the attendees.