Al-Manār (magazine)

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Al-Manār
Cover of the second issue of al-Manar magazine, 1899.jpg
Cover of the second issue of Al Manār magazine, 1899
Editor-in-chiefRashid Rida
CategoriesIslamic magazine
Political magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Monthly
FounderRashid Rida
Salih Rida
Year founded1898
Final issue1940
CountryEgypt
Based inCairo
LanguageArabic

Al-Manār (Arabic: المنار; 'The Lighthouse'), was an Islamic magazine, written in Arabic, and was founded, published and edited by Rashid Rida from 1898 until his death in 1935 in Cairo, Egypt.[1][2]

History and profile[]

Al-Manār was founded by Rashid Rida in 1898,[2] and his brother, Salih Rida, was also instrumental in the establishment of the magazine.[3] They were both members of the Decentralization Party.[3] Their goal in establishing the magazine was to articulate and disseminate reformist ideas and preserve the unity of the Muslim nations.[4] The magazine was based in Cairo.[1][5] It was started as a weekly, but later its frequency was switched to monthly.[1]

Rashid Rida was the sole editor-in-chief of the magazine.[2] Its content was heavily about Quranic interpretations.[5] Rida published numerous articles in Al-Manār which praised the Wahhabi movement in Saudi Arabia.[6] However, the magazine also featured articles on politics.[5] One of the contributors was Abd al Rahman al Kawakibi, a scholar from Aleppo, Syria.[7] His book, Umm al-Qura, was serialized in Al-Manār from April 1902 to February 1903 which proposed the establishment of an Arabian/Sharifian Caliphate.[8]

Following the death of Rashid Rida in 1935 the magazine was irregularly published until 1940.[7] Two issues were published by the heirs of Rida, and from 1939 to 1940 the Association of Muslim Brotherhood was the publisher of Al-Manār.[7]

Legacy[]

The intellectual heritage of Al-Manār is one of the basic tenets adopted by the popular movements in Arab World, including the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the Association of Algerian ‘Ulama’ in Algeria.[7] Founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hasan Al-Banna, praised Al-Manar as one of "the greatest influences in the service of Islam for this age in Egypt and in other areas."[9]

Al-Manār inspired various journals, including Shura, a Turkic language magazine published in Orenburg from 1908 to 1918.[10][11]

See also[]

  • List of theological journals

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Joseph A. Kéchichian (14 November 2013). "The Islamic reformer: Mohammad Rashid Reda". Gulf News. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  2. ^ a b c Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (1997). Defining Islam for the Egyptian State: Muftis and Fatwas of the Dār Al-Iftā. BRILL. p. 69. ISBN 90-04-10947-1.
  3. ^ a b Eliezer Tauber (1990). "The Press and the Journalist as a Vehicle in Spreading National Ideas in Syria in the Late Ottoman Period". Die Welt des Islams. 30 (1/4): 166. doi:10.2307/1571051.
  4. ^ "Muhammad Rashid Rida". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  5. ^ a b c "Muhammad Rashid Rida". Encyclopedia of the Middle East. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  6. ^ Ghassan Salamé (Summer 1987). "Islam and politics in Saudi Arabia". Arab Studies Quarterly. 9 (3): 309. JSTOR 41857933.
  7. ^ a b c d Kosugi Yasushi (2006). "Al-Manar revisited: the "lighthouse" of the Islamic revival". In Stéphane A. Dudoignon; Komatsu Hisao; Kosugi Yasushi (eds.). Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World. Transmission, Transformation and Communication (PDF). London and New York: Routledge. pp. 3–39. ISBN 9780415549790. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 April 2021.
  8. ^ Joshua Teitelbaum (1998). "Sharif Husayn ibn Ali and the Hashemite vision of the post‐Ottoman order: From chieftaincy to suzerainty". Middle Eastern Studies. 34 (1): 104. doi:10.1080/00263209808701212.
  9. ^ Richard P. Mitchell (1968). "Conclusion". The Society of the Muslim Brothers. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 322. ISBN 0-19-508437-3.
  10. ^ Roy Bar Sadeh (Summer 2020). "Between Cairo and the Volga-Urals: Al-Manar and Islamic Modernism, 1905-17". Kritika. 21 (3). doi:10.1353/kri.2020.0036.
  11. ^ Stéphane A. Dudoignon (2006). "Echoes to Al-Manār among the Muslims of the Russian Empire". In Stéphane A. Dudoignon; Komatsu Hisao; Kosugi Yasushi (eds.). Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World. Transmission, Transformation and Communication (PDF). London and New York: Routledge. pp. 85–116. ISBN 9780415549790. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 April 2021.

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