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01/02/2022

The Persian magazine Sharafat was published in Teheran 1896-1903. It continued the tradition of Sharaf by focusing on publishing portraits and biographies of well-known Iranian and foreign notables, politicians & artists of that time.

Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften. Šarāfat : a monthly paper publ. under the management of Mohammad Bager Khan, Etemad Saltaneh. Tihrān, 1.1314=1896 - 66.1321=1903[?]

24/01/2022

Muhibban was a political, religious and mystical Ottoman journal published in Istanbul after the proclamation of the Constitutional Monarchy between 1909 and 1919.

Müştâk-ı hürriyet-i tâmme olan bilcümle muhibbân-ı meşrûtiyetin vâsıta-i neşr-i efkârı olarak her ay başı neşr olunur.

20/01/2022

The Arab magazine Nidal al-Sha'b was published in Jaffa by the Palestinian Communist Party. It covered issues of organized local labor, as well as communism and socialism with a particular focus on areas under colonial rule.

1940-1943 available at:

18/01/2022

The Ottoman magazine muhazarat ve muktatafat was published in Istanbul 1883-1899.

Semimonthly Began with 1. cilt, numara 1 (1 Rebiyülevvel 1300 [10 Jan. 1883]). Master Microform held by: DLC Inscriptions on front and back covers: [tughra] el-Müstenid bi-tevfikât ir-Rabbâniye, Melik üd-Devlet-il-aliyet-il-Osmaniye, es-Sultan ibn us-Sultan is-Sultan el-Gazi Abdülhamid /...

17/01/2022

The Arabic-language magazine an-Nibras was published in Beirut 1909-1910. The founder and publisher was the well-known Lebanese theologian, writer and reformer Mustafa al-Ghalayini.

Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften. an-Nibrās : Maǧalla šahrīya tabḥut̲ fi l-iǧtimā' wal'umrān wal-'ilm wal-adab wat-ta-'rīh wal-intiqād was-siyāsa. Beirut : an-Nibrās, 1.1909 - 2.1910; damit Ersch. eingest.

13/01/2022

The Persian journal Sur-e Esrafil was published 1907-1909. It was one of the publications started following the Iranian constitutional revolution in addition to others, including Nasim-e-Shomal and Majalleh-ye Estebdad.

Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften. Ṣūr-i Isrāfīl. Tihrān, 1.1325/26=[1907/08] - 2.1327=[1909][?]

12/01/2022

The Ottoman journal Muharrir was published in Istanbul 1876-1878. The editor was Ebüzziya Tevfik (1849-1913), a member of the Young Ottomans. Muharrir was a literary rather than a political journal.

Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften. Muharrir. İstanbul, 1.1292=[1876] - 8.1295=[1879][?]

11/01/2022

An-Nashra al-Wataniyya was a news magazine published between and in Jerusalem⁩. It emphasized its goal to help invigorate the agricultural and industrial sectors.

1933-1934 available online at:

10/01/2022

Siraj al-Akhbar was a Persian magazine that circulated in Kabul 1911–1919 and was founded by Mahmud Tarzi. It was primarily a political magazine, purposing to keep the country informed about international affairs, and current events.

Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften. Sirāǧ al-ah̲bār / mudīr wa sar-muḥarrīr-i Maḥmūd Ṭarzī. Kābul : Māštuh̲āna, 1.1329/30=[1911/12] - 8.1337=[1918]; damit Ersch. eingest.

22/12/2021

As we are taking a little winter break, enjoy our little Christmas surprise: our comprehensive chronology of Arabic, Persian and Ottoman-Turkish periodicals!

Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year! 🎁🎄❄️

Our research findings are provided in a comprehensive chronology of Arabic, Persian and Ottoman-Turkish periodicals, which were published during the period from 1840 to 1950.

21/12/2021

Mirʾat-ı Sanayiʿ-i Islamiye or Le Miroir de l’Art Musulman was a bilingual magazine in French and Ottoman-Turkish published in 1898. In its articles, the sole author Hakky-Bey introduced his readership to the world of Islamic art.

15/12/2021

The Persian journal Ruh al-Qudus was published 1907-1908 in Tehran. The foundation of this revolutionary opposition journal aimed to publish opinions on prevailing political and social conditions and to openly criticize the inconveniences.

Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften. Rūḥ al-qudus : (1907-1908). (1325-1327hq). Tihrān