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{{Short description|Arabic popular science magazine}}
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| image_caption = Second volume of ''Al Muqtataf''
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| category = Science magazine
| frequency = Monthly
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| publisher = Yaqʿūb Ṣarrūf; Fāris Nimr; Šāhīn Makāriyūs
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| founded = 1876
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'''''Al-Muqtaṭaf''''' ([[Arabic language|Arabic]]: المقتطف; [[Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft|DMG]]: al-Muqtaṭaf; [[English language|English]]: "The Digest")
▲'''''Al-Muqtaṭaf''''' ([[Arabic language|Arabic]]: المقتطف; [[Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft|DMG]]: al-Muqtaṭaf; [[English language|English]]: "The Digest")<ref>Elshakry, Marwa (2013), p. 60.</ref> was an Arabic journal of [[popular science]]. The journal was published monthly from 1876 to 1952 in [[Beirut]] and [[Cairo]] with a total of 121 issues. Along with ''[[Al-Manar (magazine)|Al-Manar]]'' and ''[[Al-Hilal (magazine)|Al-Hilal]]'', it was one of the Arab world's three most popular journals in the early 20th century.<ref>Elshakry, Marwa (2013), p. 78.</ref>
''Al-Muqtataf'' was founded in 1876 by the [[Arabic Christians]]
|page=621|doi=10.1017/S0020743809990390|doi-access=free}}</ref> at the [[Syrian Protestant College]] (SPC, today [[American University of Beirut]]) in Beirut.<ref The publishing course was apparently not planned from the beginning since the volumes are not furnished with a date till the fourth year.<ref>cf. al-Muqtataf,
In 1882, the journal attracted controversy when it published a speech by an SPC professor named Edwin Lewis. The speech made favorable references to [[Darwinism]], and was opposed by religiously conservative authorities at SPC.<ref name=marwa>{{cite book|author=Marwa Elshakry|title=Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860-1950|
|publisher=[[Pluto Press]]|location=London|isbn=9780745332741|page=62|edition=2nd|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt183p4f5
|doi=10.2307/j.ctt183p4f5|jstor=j.ctt183p4f5 }}</ref> One of the contributors in Cairo was [[May Ziadeh]], a Palestinian feminist writer.<ref>{{cite journal
|author=Hala Kamal|title=Women's Writing on Women's Writing": Mayy Ziyada's Literary Biographies as Egyptian Feminist History|year=2018|volume=25
|issue=2|journal=Women's Writing|page=269|doi=10.1080/09699082.2017.1387350|s2cid=158818848}}</ref> In addition, Ṣarrūf and Nimr published simultaneously the daily newspaper ''al-Muqaṭṭam'' (1889-1952), the monthly journal ''al-Laṭāʾif'' (1886-1896) and ''Ǧarīdat as-Sūdān'' (''The Sudan Times'', 1903) in Cairo.<ref name=dagmar04/>
''Al-Muqtataf'' ended publication in 1952.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Chronology of the 19th-century Periodicals in Arabic|access-date=18 August 2022
|url=https://archiv.zmo.de/jaraid/HTML/tabddchr.html|publisher=Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient}}</ref>
==Content==
''Al-Muqtaṭaf'' was not a political but rather an encyclopaedic journal that followed European and American examples.<ref>
The publishers' aim was to inform the reader in the [[Arab world]] about the Western scientific progress of that time and how to use that knowledge in one's daily life.<ref
The rubric for disputation and correspondence (Bāb al-Munāẓara wa-l-Murāsala) and the column for questions and answers (Masāʿil wa-aǧwibatuhā) enabled and promoted social, scientific and political debates.
It was also important for the authors to complement the articles with numerous illustrations, first in black and white and from 1926 on for the first time coloured.<ref>''al-Muqtataf'', August 1926.</ref> From March 1885 a lot of
==Influence==
''Al Muqtataf'' was used by other Arabic journals as a model, including ''[[Al Nafais Al Asriyyah]]'' launched in Jerusalem in 1908.<ref>{{cite thesis|author=Spencer Dan Scoville|title=The Agency of the Translator: Khalil Baydas' Literary Translations|location=[[University of Michigan]]
|page=9|url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/96110|degree=PhD|year=2012|hdl=2027.42/96110 |url-access=<!--WP:URLACCESS-->}}</ref>
==References==
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