Omar bey Al-Raschid, also known as Friedrich Arnd, was a German publicist who was born on 3 July 1839. As per author

Theodor Lessing Karl Theodor Richard Lessing (8 February 1872, Hanover – 31 August 1933, Marienbad) was a German Jewish philosopher. He is known for opposing the rise of Hindenburg as president of the Weimar Republic and for his classic on Jewish self-hatre ...

he was born in Germany, but raised in Russia. However, as per some other sources he was born in St Petersburg, Russia. In 1863 he married his cousin Therese, with whom he had four children. In 1873 he started an extramarital relationship with

Helene Böhlau Helene Böhlau (; 22 November 1859 in Weimar – 26 March 1940 in Augsburg) was a German novelist.German Wikipedia says she was born in 1856. Biography She traveled much in the East, married Omar al-Raschid Bey (born as Friedrich Arnd) in Istanb ...

. In 1886 he traveled with Helene to Istanbul, where he accepted

Islam Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic Monotheism#Islam, monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God in Islam, God (or ...

and divorced his wife Therese under Islamic law and married Helene. The philosophy of Omar influence Helene's writings after his death. After a year in Istanbul, the couple moved to Munich, where their son Omar Hermann Ottokar was born in 1895. As per author Theodor Lessing the registration information of the author is missing, and all that is known about him is that he was registered as a Turkish Citizen. He died on 26 January 1911 in Munich.

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{{authority control 1839 births 1911 deaths German male writers