Mikhail Mishaqa
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Mikhail Mishaqa or Michael Mishaka[1] (March 20, 1800 – July 19, 1888; Arabic: ميخائيل مشاقة), also known as Doctor Mishaqa, was born in Rashmayyā, Lebanon, and is reputed to be "the first historian of modern Ottoman Syria"[2] as well as the "virtual founder of the twenty-four equal quarter tone scale".[3] Mishaqa's memoir of the 1860 Mount Lebanon civil war is valuable to historians, as it is the only account written by a survivor[4] of the massacre of Syrian Christians in Damascus, Syria. In 1859 he was appointed vice-consul of the United States in Damascus.[5]