Emirati writers and intellectuals and Arab Emirati researcher Salah Qassem Sultan Al-Banna, who passed away yesterday, mourned their grief over the loss of an honorable model for the Emirati intellectual characterized by awareness, determination and determination to work, research and study, as he challenged lung damage and the difficulties of using an artificial respiratory system until he completed his message to obtain Doctorate degree in Emirati history.
The intellectuals noted Qassem’s constant desire to follow the cultural and creative scene in the Emirates despite his illness, poor health, and his solid will that enabled him to complete the doctoral thesis titled "From the Coast of Oman to the United Arab Emirates, 1952-1971, Endeavors of the Union", in 2016.
Dr. Hanif Hassan Al-Qassem mourned the late deceased through his personal account on Twitter, saying: “I knew the deceased since we were colleagues at Emirates University. His ambition was without borders, serious in his educational attainment. Persistent in his academic career, which culminated in his doctorate despite his critical health condition. May God have mercy on him and inspired his dear father and his generous family patience and reward ».
The writer Abdel Ghaffar Hussein tweeted: “May God have mercy on Salah Qassem Al-Banna and may God bless his family. It was a good example of an ambitious Emirati youth to get acquainted with the historical knowledge of the Emirates, and he exerts for her the effort despite the severe illness. He was a speaker in history and in social sciences, and this was his doctoral degree from Britain. ”
While Dr. Abdulaziz described the late Muslim as a friend of culture and knowledge. The Muslim wrote: “May God have mercy on you, friend of culture and knowledge, Dr. Salah Qassem Sultan Al Banna, a beautiful researcher who seizes information and enters into the hearts with sincerity of feelings and spontaneity of affection.”
While Dr. Abdullah Al-Raisi said: «Whoever writes history will not be forgotten by history, so he remains among his pages alive and alive. How, then, whoever annihilates his youth in serving the history of his homeland, arrives and wanders in his field in search of truth between piles of fragile and corroded papers, and in a language that is difficult to decipher except for those who have mastered it with knowledge and knowledge. God is gone researcher in the history of the country d. Salah Qassem ».
Cultural institutions in the country were keen to mourn the late deceased, including a symposium on culture and science, the Sultan bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Foundation, and others.
The late researcher Salah Qassim Al-Banna, who is the son of Qasim Sultan, the former director of Dubai Municipality, had completed his doctoral thesis in 2016, after a period of interruption that lasted five years, after he was attacked by the disease, according to what was mentioned in a previous interview with «Emirates Today» He said: “My deteriorating health surprised me at the time when I was preparing to prepare for the discussion of the thesis, which did not deter me from pursuing an achievement whose initiation was an idea that I had in the late nineties, insofar as this made me faster than the pace of its completion,” explaining that he had overcome an obstacle The scarcity of information and the lack of systematic availability of documents and sources between the period from 1820 to the date of the founding of the federation, through resorting to many of the major books and documents houses and libraries in the United Kingdom, as well as overcoming the problem of shipping books and sources that he needed from the Emirates, through scanning them , And stored on a hard disk.
Hanif Hassan:
• “His ambition was unlimited, and he is serious about his educational achievement. Persistent in his academic career ».
Abdul Ghaffar Hussain:
• “It was a good example for an ambitious young man to find out the historical knowledge of the Emirates.”
• Abdullah Al-Raisi: “Whoever writes history will not be forgotten by history, and he will remain alive among his pages.”
Tall experience
The late Salah Qassem Al-Banna sought in the doctoral thesis to answer four main questions, related to the factors that affected the union, the role of rulers and other factors in its success, and the six-party and seven-way union, referring to the most important factors that help the establishment of the union, and how the direction of its time is more than Globally, it was pouring in the framework of establishing new patterns of federations, but many of them were unsuccessful, while the Emirati experience remained lofty, and the importance of the rulers ’agreement in its success.