جرائد Jara'id : A Chronology of Nineteenth Century Periodicals in Arabic (1800-1900): A Research Tool

جرائد Jara'id : A Chronology of Nineteenth Century Periodicals in Arabic (1800-1900): A Research Tool

With a major contribution from Philip Sadgrove

and contributions from Philippe Chevrant, Lamia Eid, Till Grallert, Rana Issa, Adam Mestyan, Christian Meier, Geoffrey Roper, and Ola Seif

Prepared and supervised by Adam Mestyan

TEI XML-Markup, digital publication, concept and design of the website by Till Grallert

Introductory Notes

This website provides a chronology of nineteenth-century periodicals in Arabic.

Although it is meant to include all periodicals published in Arabic or in Arabic and in another language (like the usual pair of Arabic and Ottoman Turkish) or in Arabic written in a different script (like Judeo-Arabic) in the period from 1800 to 1900, this chronology is certainly incomplete. Furthermore, there remain numerous problems with dating and locating individual publications as well as identifying their owners, editors, or publishers. A common problem is that journals with different editors used the same title or the same editors published periodicals under different titles.

Thus, at the moment we consciously publish a working draft with the purpose of making our information available to the scholarly community. We welcome all readers to submit any comment, corrections, and new data via the email addresses provided in the "Submit comments" section. We would like to ask all contributors to always refer to the ID at the end of each row – in case of comments on existing entries – and cite their sources, as otherwise we cannot consider the submission for being included in the table. Every contribution will be acknowledged. 

We chose to present the core data as a table containing information on titles, dates of first and last issue published, place(s) of publication, names of publishers and editors, language(s) of publication, and available collections. In addition, we provide various indexes of publishers and locations, as well as a bibliography of the most important secondary sources and available union catalogues. To search any part of the website, the browser's search function should be invoked (Ctrl-F for Windows, Cmd-F for Mac OSX). Please keep in mind that unicode symbols adhering to the IJMES transliteration must be used. 

No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical without permission in writing from the Zentrum Moderner Orient.

Introduction
Chronology of Periodicals
Undated Periodicals

Indexes

• Persons
• Organizations
• Locations
• Holding Institutions

Abbreviations of holding institutions
Legend
Bibliography
Submit comments

Experimental features

• Map of Locations
• Languages other than Arabic

Preservation of historical periodical collections (1900-1950) at the Al-Aqsa Mosque Library in East Jerusalem

Preservation of historical periodical collections (1900-1950) at the Al-Aqsa Mosque Library in East Jerusalem
Many early Arab newspapers from the historical periodical collections (1900-1950) at the Al-Aqsa Mosque Library in East Jerusalem are now available online for research purposes.
The newspapers were digitized by British Library Endangered Archives Programme.

"During the project 24 historical publications, including 13 newspapers and 11 journals and magazines, were converted into digital format. Most of the periodicals were published in Palestine during the British Mandate Period (1917-1948), but among the titles selected for the project there was also a publication from the time of the Ottoman Empire, Al-Jinan (1874), and a few publications from the pre-war period, such as Al-Mahaba (1901), Al Hasna (1909-1912), Tazwir Afkar (1909), and Al-Muqtabas (1908-1916). The project resulted in the digitisation of 24 titles, 6,699 issues and 53,783 pages.

The records copied by this project have been catalogued as:

• EAP119/1 Periodical collection of the al-Aqsa Mosque Library (1874-1955)"

Full catalog entries for the collection can be seen in The British Library’s main archives and manuscripts catalogue: http://searcharchives.bl.uk/

View files from this project.

Currently available:
*Title: Majallat Rawdat al-Ma'arif (1922-1934)
*Title: Rawdat al-Ma'arif (1326-1327AH) [1908-1909]
*Title: al-'Arab (1933-1934)
*Title: al-Fajr (1935)
*Title: al-Hasna' (1909-1912)
*Title: al-Huquq (1923-1928)
*Title: al-Jami'ah al-'Arabiyah (1927-1936)
*Title: al-Jami'ah al-Islamiyah (1932-1937)
*Title: al-Jinan (1874)
*Title: al-Kuliyyah al-Arabia (1927-1938)
*Title: al-Mahaba' (1901)
*Title: al-Muqtabas (1907-1913)
*Title: al-Sirat al-Mustaqim (1928-1938)
*Title: al-Zahrah (1922-1926)

From the list below, the first six titles are being prepared for publication. They should be available later this month. The final four titles will then be added. This will take one or two months.

-Title: Filastin (1923-1951)
-Title: Mir'at al-Sharq (1922-1936)
-Title: Sawt al-Sha'b (1927-1935)
-Title: Tasvir-i efkar (1909)
-Title: al-Aqdam (1933-1936)
-Title: al-Awqat al-'Arabiyah (1935)
-Title: al-Difa' (1934-1955)
-Title: al-Liwa' (1935-1937)
-Title: al-Muqtabas (1908-1916)
-Title: al-Qabas (1913-1934)

[Thanks to Lynda Barraclough, Endangered Archives Programme curator at BL for the update]

Also of interest : Givat Havivah Peace Archive of Palestinian newspapers.