Al-Jinan (magazine)

Al-Jinan (Arabic: الجنان, romanized: al-jinān, meaning "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] Written largely by Butrus' son Salim, "it finally ceased to appear because of the growing difficulties of writing freely under the rule of Abdülhamid.[3]

Al-Jinan
CategoriesPolitical magazine
Literary magazine
FrequencyBi-weekly
FounderButrus al-Bustani
First issue1870
Final issue1886
CountryOttoman Empire
Based inBeirut
LanguageArabic

Al-Jinan had a pan-Arab political stance.[4] 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.[3] The magazine was also one of the earliest Arabic magazines which covered narrative fiction such as novels, novellas and short stories.[4]

Three years after its start Al-Jinan had nearly 1500 subscribers.[4] The readers of the magazine included the leading Muslim merchant families in Beirut.[4]

References
  1. Dagmar Glass (2002). "'An Ounce of Example is better than a Pound of Instruction'. Biographies in Early Arabic Magazine Journalism". Querelles privées et contestations publiques. Le rôle de la presse dans la formation de l'opinion publique au Proche Orient. Les Éditions Isis. p. 13.
  2. Ami Ayalon (2010). Reading Palestine: Printing and Literacy, 1900-1948. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-292-78281-5.
  3. Albert Hourani (1983). Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798-1939. Cambridge University Press. p. 245. ISBN 978-0-521-27423-4.
  4. 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.


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