# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-saliba
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:28:12.378Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-saliba"
name: "George Saliba"
slug: "george-saliba"
description: "George Saliba is a Lebanese-American historian who is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Science at the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University, New York, where he has been since 1979. Saliba is currently the founding director of the Farouk Jabre Center for Arabic & Islamic Science & Philosophy and the Jabre-Khwarizmi Chair in the History Department."
tagline: "Lebanese Islamist and Arabist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Professor_George_Saliba_at_his_Office_Desk_photo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.124950666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "George Saliba"
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    title: "George Saliba"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "George Saliba"
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    title: "George Saliba"
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    title: "George Saliba"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump