(يعقوب صرُّوف)سر النجاح

Yaqoub Sarrouf: Lebanese scientist, writer, and journalist, he was well-read and encyclopedic. He founded the famous literary and scientific magazine, Al-Muqtatif, and headed its editor-in-chief until his death. He also participated in publishing other famous newspapers such as Al-Muqattam. Sarrouf was born in 1852 in the village of Hadath in Lebanon, and received his first studies at the “American School”, then his father sent him to the “American University” in Beirut, where he graduated in 1870 CE, and assumed the presidency and administration of the two branches of “The American School” in Sidon and Tripoli, then he established the magazine “Al-Qittaf”. With the Lebanese writer “Faris Nimr” in 1876 AD; Where it was issued for nine years from Beirut, then moved to Cairo, where "Sorouf" supervised it until his death. This magazine has won wide fame in the Arab countries. This is due to the diversity of its topics between literature, language and modern science. It used to publish sober topics for the elite writers of that period, and it was considered one of the most prominent luminous signs left by Sarouf in the literary and scientific arena. “Sarouf” possessed the spirit of the investigative scientist and the perseverance of the researcher; He used to spend long hours in public libraries reading, studying and researching scientific and philosophical issues, and he was interested in natural sciences such as mathematics and chemistry, as well as astronomy. Therefore, we find that he has published many scientific articles that dealt with modern scientific theories in the previously mentioned fields, in a scientific style that is not dry and not devoid of attractiveness and literary workmanship, so the articles he writes were his own enlightening project. Where he contributed to the movement of modern science, knowledge and philosophical ideas into the Arabic language, so it is right to say that he was one of the most prominent men of the modern scientific renaissance that illuminated the Arab world. Sarrouf died in 1927 at the age of seventy-five, leaving a great scientific and literary legacy for the Arab nation.