Al-Mu'ayyad (newspaper)

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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b c 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.