Ad-Diya

aḍ-Ḍiyāʾ

Editor	Ibrahīm Al-Yāziǧī
Categories	culture, anthropology, language, education
Frequency	twice per month
Publisher	Ibrahīm Al-Yāziǧī
First issue	15 September 1898
Final issue	31 July 1906
Country	Egypt
Based in	Cairo
Language	Arabic
Website	http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5:1-68602

Between 1898 and 1906, the Arabic periodical aḍ-Ḍiyāʾ (“illumination“) was published twice a month in Cairo. There are eight year’s issues with 24 numbers each (first to third year), resp. 20 numbers each (fourth to eighth year). Editor in chief was Ibrahīm al-Yāziǧī (1847-1906), a linguist and journalist from Lebanon, who on his readers’ request published aḍ-Ḍiyāʾ in succession to his earlier periodical al-Bayān (1897-1898). As regards content, it had the same agenda as al-Bayān. The subtitle of the periodical underlines this aspiration: “maǧallat ʿilmīya adabīya ṣaḥīya ṣanāʿīya“ (“a scientific, literary, sanitary and industrial journal”). Alongside countless scientific and literary topics, articles on the development of newspapers in Egypt at that time are also to be found (cf. i. a. 1st year, 1st issue). A complete and free available digital version of this journal can be found in the digital collections of the ULB Bonn.

Further reading

• Soueid, Père Paul (1969). Ibrahim Al-Yazigi, L'Homme et son Œuvre. Beirut. OCLC 1980217. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Dagmar, Glaß (2004): Der al-Muqtaṭaf und seine Öffentlichkeit. Aufklärung, Räsonnement und Meinungsstreit in der frühen arabischen Zeitschriftenkommunikation, Band I+II, Würzburg, pp. 41f., 261, 429.

External links

• Online-Version: aḍ-Ḍiyāʾ
• Translatio: [1]
• Digital collections of the ULB Bonn: [2]
• al- ǧāmiʻa
• al-Bayān