Asad Rustum

Asad Rustum studied at American University of Beirut and University of Chicago. The recorded working language is Arabic, English and Latin. Employment is recorded with American University of Beirut and Lebanese University. Works named in the authority record are Muṣṭalaḥ Al-Tā’rīkh, Wathīqat al-Duzdār wa-qaḍīyat al-Burāq, ʻĪsá Iskandar al-Maʻlūf al-muʼarrikh al-Lubnānī bi-munāsabat dhikrāhu al-sābiʻah fī 2 Tammūz 1963, Al-ʾamīr ḥīdr aḥmd al-šhābī ūtārīẖh al-ġrr al-ḥsān fī aẖbār abnāʾ al-zmān, Al-uslūb al-ʻilmī wa-al-taʼrīkh and Tārīkh Fakhr al-Dīn al-Thānī. Distinctions recorded are Order of Civil Merit of the Syrian Arab Republic and Order of Merit.

• Name — Asad Rustum • Native Name — أسد رستم • Birth Name — Asad bin Jibra'il Rustum Muja'is • Born — 4 June 1897 • Birthplace — Dhour El Choueir, Lebanon • Died — 23 June 1965 • Occupation — Historian, academic, and writer

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. He was awarded the Order of Civil Merit of the Syrian Arab Republic and the Lebanese order of merit in 1964. Rustum died on 23 June 1965.