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Frequency | Monthly |
Founder | Anastas Al Karmali |
Founded | 1911 |
Final issue | 1931 |
Country | Iraq |
Based in | Baghdad |
Language | Arabic |
Lughat Al Arab ( Arabic: لغة العرب, lit. 'The Language of the Arabs') was a monthly linguistic and history magazine which was published in Baghdad between 1911 and 1931 with a twelve-year interruption.
Lughat Al Arab was launched by the Carmelite Father Anastas Al Karmali in Baghdad in 1911. [1] [2] It was published in Baghdad on a monthly basis. [1] [3] The magazine featured articles on language, history, literature [2] and science. [4] In the first issue the goal of Lughat Al Arab was stated as follows: "to serve the homeland, knowledge, and literature, familiarising Iraq and its people with the neighbouring countries and the writings of Western scholars, and giving Iraq a recognised place among civilised nations." [4]
Al Karmali edited the magazine. [5] The last issue appeared in June 1914. [1] Al Karmali was sent to exile in Anatolia in 1916, and following his return to Baghdad Lughat Al Arab was restarted in 1926. [1] The magazine permanently folded in 1931. [6] In this second period Kazim Al Dujayli and Iraqi linguist and historian Muhammad Bahjat Athari were among the contributors of Lughat Al Arab. [5] [7]
Each issue of Lughat Al Arab published during its first phase was archived under the OpenArabicPE’s Corpus. [1]