Al-Mu'ayyad (newspaper)

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Al-Mu'ayyad
TypeDaily newspaper
Founder(s)Ali Yusuf
Founded1889
LanguageArabic
Ceased publication1900
HeadquartersCairo
CountryEgypt

Al-Mu'ayyad (Arabic: The Supporter) was an Arabic daily newspaper published in Egypt in the period 1889 to 1900. It was one of the influential dailies of that period in Egypt. [1]

History and profile

Al-Mu'ayyad was launched by Ali Yusuf in 1889. [2] [3] He also edited the paper. [1] [4] Al-Mu'ayyad was considered to be an anti-imperialist and pan-Islamic publication and received covert funding from Khedive Abbas Hilmi. [5] [6] It frequently published articles praising the Khedive emphasizing his closeness to his subjects. [7] The paper was one of the Egyptian publications which advocated Jamal al-Din al-Afghani's ijtihad view. [8]

As of 1897 the paper had nearly six thousands subscribers like Al-Ahram and Al Muqattam . [9] There was a heated debate between Al-Mu'ayyad and Al Muqattam during the British occupation of Egypt between 1892 and 1914 in that the latter was an ardent supporter of the British and Al-Mu'ayyad a militant supporter of the independence of Egypt. [9]

One of the most significant contributors of Al-Mu'ayyad was Mustafa Kamil Pasha. [10] The paper was closed down by the British authorities in 1900. [10] Following this incident Mustafa Kamil Pasha established his own newspaper, Al Liwa , to publish his views. [10]

Al-Mu'ayyad returned as a weekly, published until 1914. [11]

References

  1. 1 2 Helen A. Kitchen (April 1950). ""Al-Ahram": The "Times" of the Arab World". The Middle East Journal . 4 (2): 167. JSTOR   4322163.
  2. ↑ Marilyn Booth (2013). "What's in a Name? Branding Punch in Cairo, 1908". In Hans Harder; Barbara Mittler (eds.). Asian Punches. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer. p. 271. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-28607-0_12. ISBN   978-3-642-28606-3.
  3. ↑ Beth Baron (1991). "Mothers, Morality, and Nationalism in pre-1919 Egypt". In Rashid Khalidi; et al. (eds.). The Origins of Arab Nationalism. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 271. ISBN   978-0-231-07435-3.
  4. ↑ Aida Najjar (1975). The Arabic Press and Nationalism in Palestine, 1920-1948 (PhD thesis). Syracuse University. p. 21. ISBN   9781083851468. ProQuest   288060869.
  5. ↑ "Abbas II (Egypt)" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. I: A-Ak - Bayes (15th ed.). Chicago, IL. 2010. pp.  8–9. ISBN   978-1-59339-837-8.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. ↑ Robert L. Tignor (Autumn 2020). "Book review". The Middle East Journal . 74 (3): 466.
  7. ↑ Kristin Shawn Tassin (2014). Egyptian nationalism, 1882-1919: Elite competition, transnational networks, empire, and independence (PhD thesis). University of Texas at Austin. p. 32. hdl:2152/28411.
  8. ↑ Indira Falk Gesink (2003). ""Chaos on the Earth": Subjective Truths versus Communal Unity in Islamic Law and the Rise of Militant Islam". The American Historical Review . 108 (3): 727. doi:10.1086/529594.
  9. 1 2 Stephen Sheehi (2005). "Arabic Literary-Scientific Journals: Precedence for Globalization and the Creation of Modernity". Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 25 (2): 442,445. doi:10.1215/1089201X-25-2-439. S2CID   143166875.
  10. 1 2 3 Haggai Erlich (2011). "Kamil, Mustafa (1874–1908)". In Henry Louis Gates; Emmanuel Akyeampong; Steven J. Niven (eds.). Dictionary of African Biography. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195382075.001.0001. ISBN   9780199857258.
  11. ↑ Partial holdings at "Al-Muʼayyad | CRL Digital Delivery System". Center for Research Libraries.
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