Arrissalah

Arrissalah (Arabic: الرسالة Ar-Risala: the message, or مجلة الرسالة Ar-Risala Magazine) was an Arabic weekly cultural magazine for literature, science, and art published in Cairo from 1933 to 1953.[1][2] It has been described as "the most important intellectual weekly in the 1930s Egypt and the Arab world."[3]

Arrissalah
EditorAhmad Hasan al-Zayyat
CategoriesLiterature, poetry, social issues
FrequencyBiweekly
Weekly
First issue15 January 1933 (1933-01-15)
Final issue
Number		23 February 1953 (1953-02-23)
1025
CountryEgypt
Based inAbdeen, Cairo
LanguageArabic

History and profile

The first issue of Arrissalah appeared in January 1933.[4] It was published by Dar Arrissalah and owned and edited by Ahmad Hasan al-Zayyat.[4] Muhammad Farid Abu Hadid was instrumental in the establishment of the magazine.[5] It was consisted of 86 pages which were printed on the A4-sized paper.[2] Arrissalah was started as a biweekly publication, but its frequency was switched to weekly later.[4]

The magazine featured the work of prominent writers such as Sayyid Qutb, Ahmad Amin, Muhammad Farid Abu Hadid, Ahmad Zaki Pasha, Mustafa 'Abd al-Raziq, Mostafa Saadeq Al-Rafe'ie, Taha Hussein, Mahmoud Mohamed Shaker, and Aboul-Qacem Echebbi.[4] 

References
  1. Sabry Hafez (2017). "Cultural Journals and Modern Arabic Literature: A Historical Overview". Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (37): 9–49. ISSN 1110-8673. JSTOR 26191813.
  2. Elisabeth Kendall (July 1997). "The Marginal Voice: Journals and the Avant-Garde in Egypt". Journal of Islamic Studies. 8 (2): 221. doi:10.1093/jis/8.2.216.
  3. Sonja Hegasy (2010). "The Arabs and Nazi Germany: Collaborators and Antagonists". Qantara. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  4. Israel Gershoni (November 1999). "Egyptian Liberalism in an Age of "Crisis of Orientation": Al-Risala's Reaction to Fascism and Nazism, 1933-39". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 31 (4): 555. doi:10.1017/S0020743800057093.
  5. الجوادي, د محمد. "محمد فريد أبو حديد.. العبقري الذي سابق الحداثة فلم تسبقه". Al Jazeera (in Arabic). Retrieved 6 September 2022.
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