Al-Urwah al-Wuthqa
Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī and Muhammad Abduh | |
Categories | literary, political |
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First issue | 13 March 1884 |
Final issue | October 1884 |
Country | France |
Based in | Paris |
Language | Arabic |
Al-Urwah al-Wuthqa (
History and profile
The journal was founded in a room in
The Imam Muhammad Abduh summarized the main goals of the magazine in a speech he sent to his friend, the English poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: protecting the independence of Eastern peoples from the aggression of Western countries, and to pressure the English government into stopping its policies that harm Muslims.
Also among the goals of the magazine, as can be ascertained from its editorial line: a call to unite and stand in solidarity, and to embrace the Nahda, and to liberate Egypt and Sudan from British colonialism.
Censorship
Al-Urwah al-Wuthqa was banned by British authorities in Egypt and India, and an elaborate network including Arab businessmen in Bombay disseminated copies throughout the Arab world.[4]
End of publication
Muhammad Abduh and Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī decided to end the magazine in October 1884 after publishing 18 editions over the course of eight months, probably due to financial problems resulting from the ban.[6]
Legacy
Some issues of Al-Urwah al-Wuthqa were found in the library of Dar al-Arab publishers, in addition to some other writings and speeches of Muhammad Abduh and Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī. In 1957, these were published with a foreword from Gamal Abdel Nasser in a book entitled Al-Urwah al-Wuthqa wa al-Thawra al-Tahririya al-Kubra (العروة الوثقى والثورة التحريرية الكبرى).[7][8]
References
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- ^ a b ""العروة الوثقى" عبر الهند". www.alkhaleej.ae. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
- ^ "al-Muwayliḥī, Muḥammad". Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
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- ^ الأفغاني, جمال الدين (1957). العروة الوثقى والثورة التحريرية الكبرى (in Arabic). دار العرب،.