Mikha'il Mishaqah

Mikhail Mishaqa or Michael Mishaka (1800–1888; ), also known as Doctor Mishaqa, was born in Rashmayya, Lebanon, and is reputed to be "the first historian of modern Ottoman Syria" as well as the "virtual founder of the twenty-four equal quarter tone scale". Mishaqa's memoir of the 1860 Mount Lebanon civil war is valuable to historians, as it is the only account written by a survivor of the massacre of Syrian Christians in Damascus, Syria.