The journal ''At-Tabib'' (“The doctor“) was edited between 1884 and 1885 by the Lebanese linguist and journalist
Ibrāhīm al-Yāziǧī (1847-1906) as well as by Bišāra Zalzal (1851-1905) and Ḫalīl Saʿāda. In total, they published 24 numbers in one year in
Beirut
Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint o ...
, coming out every two weeks. The predecessor of ''At-Tabib'', ''Ahbār Tibbiya'' (“medical notifications”), had already been founded in 1874 by
George E. Post (1838-1909). Being a member of the American Mission in Beirut as well as a professor at the Medical School of the Syrian Protestant College (nowadays the
American University of Beirut, AUB), post created a medical journal for the College's students. After taking over the post of editor in chief, al-Yāziǧī changed it into an encyclopedic educational publication that now bore the subtitle ''Maǧalla ṭibbīya ʿilmīya ṣināʿīya'' and was guided by the examples of ''
Al-Jinan'' and ''
Al-Muqtataf''. The content of its articles was medical, scientific, literary and linguistic.
Even though he failed with ''At-Tabib'', it was only some years later that al-Yāziǧī published two other periodicals in
Cairo
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: ''
Al Bayan'' and ''
Ad-Diya''.
References
Further reading
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* Dagmar Glaß. (2004). ''Der al-Muqtaṭaf und seine Öffentlichkeit. Aufklärung, Räsonnement und Meinungsstreit in der frühen arabischen Zeitschriftenkommunikation'', Band I+II, Würzburg: Ergon Verlag.
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