''Al-Jinan'' ( ar, الجنان, translit=al-jinān; "The Gardens") was an Arabic-language political and literary bi-weekly magazine established in

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Butrus al-Bustani Butrus al-Bustani ( ar, بطرس البستاني, ; 1819–1883) was a writer and scholar from present day Lebanon. He was a major figure in the Nahda, which began in Egypt in the late 19th century and spread to the Middle East. He is cons ...

and active between 1870 and 1886. Written largely by Butrus' son Salim, it finally ceased to appear because of the growing difficulties of writing freely under the rule of Abdülhamid. ''Al-Jinan'' had a pan-Arab political stance. It was the first important example of the kind of literary and scientific periodicals which began to appear in the 1870s in Arabic alongside the independent political newspapers. The magazine was also one of the earliest Arabic magazines which covered narrative fiction such as novels,

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and short stories. Three years after its start ''Al-Jinan'' had nearly 1500 subscribers. The readers of the magazine included the leading Muslim merchant families in Beirut. It also had readers in Palestine.

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