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Al-Jinan
Categories
  • Political magazine
  • Literary magazine
FrequencyBi-weekly
Founder Butrus al-Bustani
First issueJanuary 1870
Final issue1886
Country Ottoman Empire
Based in Beirut
LanguageArabic

Al-Jinan ( Arabic: الجنان, romanized: al-jinān; "The Gardens") was an Arabic-language political and literary bi-weekly magazine established in Beirut by Butrus al-Bustani and active between 1870 and 1886. [1] [2] Its first issue appeared in January 1870. [3] Written largely by Butrus' son Salim who became its editor-in-chief in 1871, [3] the magazine finally ceased to appear because of the growing difficulties of writing freely under the rule of Abdülhamid. [4]

Profile

Al-Jinan had a pan-Arab political stance. [5] It was the first important example of the kind of literary and scientific periodicals which began to appear in the 1870s in Arabic alongside the independent political newspapers. [4] The magazine was also one of the earliest Arabic magazines which covered narrative fiction such as novels, novellas and short stories. [3] [5] One of the novels serialized in the magazine was Salim Butrus's historical novel Al Hayam fi Futuh al Sham (1884; Arabic: Passion during the Conquests of Syria) which is about the conquest of Syria by Muslims in the 7th century. [6]

Al-Jinan was issued by subscription only, and was not sold in bookstores. [3] In the initial phase the readers sent their subscriptions by post to Beirut. [3] Following its success local agents were employed to collect subscriptions in the cities, including Baghdad, Basra, Cairo, Alexandria, Aleppo, Assiut, Casablanca, Tangier, London, Paris and Berlin. [3] Three years after its start Al-Jinan had nearly 1500 subscribers. [5] The readers of the magazine included the leading Muslim merchant families in Beirut. [5] It also had readers in Palestine. [2]

The issues of Al-Jinan are archived at Al Aqsa Mosque Library in Jerusalem. [7]

References

  1. ^ Dagmar Glass (2002). "'An Ounce of Example is better than a Pound of Instruction'. Biographies in Early Arabic Magazine Journalism". In Christop Herzog; et al. (eds.). Querelles privées et contestations publiques. Le rôle de la presse dans la formation de l'opinion publique au Proche Orient (in French). Istanbul: Les Éditions Isis. p. 13. ISBN  9789754282344.
  2. ^ a b Ami Ayalon (2010). Reading Palestine: Printing and Literacy, 1900-1948. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. pp. 49, 88. ISBN  978-0-292-78281-5.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Ashraf A. Eissa (2000). "Majallat Al Jinan: Arabic Narrative Discourse in the Making". Quaderni di Studi Arabi. 18: 42. JSTOR  25802893.
  4. ^ a b Albert Hourani (1983). Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798-1939. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 245. ISBN  978-0-521-27423-4.
  5. ^ a b c d Fruma Zachs (2011). "Text and Context: The Image of the Merchant in Early Nahda Fiction". Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes. 101: 481, 488. JSTOR  23861931.
  6. ^ "Al-Huyām fī jinān al-shām novel by Al Bustānī". Encyclopædia Britannica.
  7. ^ Krystyna Matusiak; Qasem Abu Harb (24 August 2009). "Digitizing the Historical Periodical Collection at the Al-Aqsa Mosque Library in East Jerusalem" (Conference Paper). rclis.org. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
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