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Dr. Dahesh Biography

F- The Travels of Dr. Dahesh and his Literature and Art Legacy:

 

In 1953, and soon after Dr. Dahesh rightfully regained his nationality following his long struggle against his oppressors, he proceeded with his enormous efforts in establishing the foundations for his Divine Daheshist Mission. He opened his house again to hundreds and thousands of people from all classes of society, who witnessed his miracles over a span of 15 years and listened to his lofty ideas and guiding teachings of Daheshism that aim to unite humanity in brotherhood and love, and to help them return to the essence of moral ideals. Many of these visitors were journalists and reporters who published numerous articles in newspapers and magazines about Dr. Dahesh’s miracles and teachings, providing tangible proof, including step by step photographs of his miraculous prodigies. On June 22nd, 1964, the well-known magazine “AL-Osbou’ Al-Arabi (The Arabic Week)” published an article titled “This is Dr. Dahesh Addressing You”, which was the first interview with Dr. Dahesh after his long absence due to the harsh persecution.


Starting in 1969, Dr. Dahesh began a series of travels around the world visiting more than 40 countries. He chronicled these travels in his book series “Dr. Dahesh’s Journeys Around the World”, which includes 22 volumes, registering his observations, impressions and views of mankind’s customs, cultures, and ways of life.


Dr. Dahesh appreciated and glorified the beauty of art. One of the main goals of his travels was to buy and collect art pieces, ranging from drawings and paintings to sculptors, from all around the world. This collection, which mounted up to more than 2000 pieces, formed the foundation of the Dahesh Museum of Art. The ingenious vision of this enormous project was planned decades before, when Dr. Dahesh began sending, what amounted up to half a million letter and correspondent, to various artists and exhibitions around the world commissioning them for paintings and artistic pieces.


Aside from Dr. Dahesh’s immense interest in art, he spent a significant amount of time and effort establishing a massive library that contains more than 200,000 books in different languages and of various topics and genre. He started buying and collecting books since youth, and he personally picked most of them from different countries during his many travels around the world. He wished for his library to be a cultural and an educational site that serves as a Daheshist heritage that would benefit all mankind enriching its wisdom and knowledge.


Year 1975 marked the beginning of the violent Lebanese civil war which eventually caused the loss of around 120,000 lives. This war was prophesied by Dr. Dahesh, and the prophecy was published on January 4th, 1948 in the Lebanese “Al-Hayat” newspaper. Soon after the war started, Dr. Dahesh and his followers acted quickly and worked on shipping the enormous museum’s art collection to the United States of America, protecting it from the war’s threats and risk of theft. He traveled to the United States in March 1976 to oversee the museum’s art pieces’ transportation and safe storage.


After visiting multiple countries, he returned to Lebanon on December 14th, 1978. He supervised during his stay the publishing of many of his books, including: “Strange Stories and Wonderful Tales” (4 volumes), “Dr. Dahesh’s Journeys Around the World” (22 volumes), “Gardens of the Gods Adorned with Roses of Paradise” (10 volumes), “Paradises of the Goddesses Set with Sacred Lotus” (10 volumes) and others.


On September 1st, 1980, Dr. Dahesh left Lebanon permanently, continuing his travels around the world, visiting the United States of America, India, and other European countries.


He died on April 9th, 1984 in the United States and was interred in the New York Metropolitan area.