Al Nadhir

Al Nadhir (Arabic: The Warner) was an Arabic language weekly Islamic magazine which was published in Cairo, Egypt, for one year between 1938 and 1939. Its subtitle was A Political Islamic Weekly.[1] It is known for being one of the official organs of the Muslim Brotherhood for which it was banned in October 1939.

Al Nadhir
Editor-in-chiefSalih Ashmawi
CategoriesPolitical magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Founded1938
First issue30 May 1938
Final issue16 October 1939
CountryEgypt
Based inCairo
LanguageArabic

History and profile

Al Nadhir was first published on 30 May 1938.[2][3] The magazine was an organ of the Muslim Brotherhood[4] and was launched following the closure of other Brotherhood publication, the weekly newspaper Majallat al Ikhwan al Muslimin.[2] The license holder was Mahmoud Abu Zeid who was a member of the Brotherhood until 1939 when he left it to form another Islamic group called the Society of Mohammad's Youth.[5] Al Nadhir was published on a weekly basis,[4][6] and its editor-in-chief was Salih Ashmawi.[1][2]

The contributors included Hasan Al Banna and his brother-in-law Abdel Hakim Abdeen.[5] In the first issue of Al Nadhir Al Banna declared in his article entitled Our Second Step that the focus of the Brotherhood had shifted from the religious, cultural and educational activities to the political activities and that they would not only talk from now on, but they would both talk and struggle and carry out practical acts.[1][7] The political goals set by the Brotherhood's general guidance council were also announced in the first issue of the magazine as follows: (1) increased prestige in the eyes of its tens of thousands of members and of radical Egyptian youth in general and (2) the opening of additional channels for action by the Brotherhood's members and branches.[1] These were the principles that guided the Brotherhood's period of the application and realization of the Islamic mission.[1]

The magazine frequently featured articles on the Palestine cause reflecting the views of the Muslim Brotherhood.[8] It also covered anti-Semitic editorials and content written by Mahmoud Saleh.[8] German Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was called Hajj Hitler in the pages of Al Nadhir.[9]

On 16 October 1939 Al Nadhir was banned by the Egyptian government due to its close connections with the Muslim Brotherhood.[2][10] Before its closure the relationships between Salih Ashmawi and the Brotherhood leader Hasan Al Banna became strained, and Ashmawi's Brotherhood membership was denied which led to the end of Al Nadhir's function as being the mouthpiece of the group.[2]

Spin offs

A publication with the same name was published by the Syrian sector of the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1970s and 1980s.[11]

References
  1. Israel Gershoni (1986). "The Muslim Brothers and the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936-39". Middle Eastern Studies. 22 (3): 383. doi:10.1080/00263208608700671.
  2. Kiki M. Santing (2020). Imagining the Perfect Society in Muslim Brotherhood Journals: An Analysis of al-Da'wa and Liwa' al-Islam. Berlin; Boston, MA: De Gruyter. pp. 22–23. ISBN 978-3-11-063649-9.
  3. Ioana Emy Matesan (2020). "Grievances and Fears in Islamist Movements: Revisiting the Link between Exclusion, Insecurity, and Political Violence". Journal of Global Security Studies. 5 (1): 55. doi:10.1093/jogss/ogz042.
  4. Farhad Hassan Abdullah (2020). "Revolution in Egypt: Political Movements and Mobilisation of Resources". Insight on Africa. 12 (1): 22. doi:10.1177/0975087819848914. S2CID 203146574.
  5. Noha Mellor (2017). Voice of the Muslim Brotherhood: Da'wa, Discourse, and Political Communication. London: Routledge. p. 113. ISBN 978-1-351-62805-1.
  6. Noman Sattar (April 1995). ""Al Ikhwan Al Muslimin" (Society of Muslim Brotherhood) Aims and Ideology, Role and Impact". Pakistan Horizon. 48 (2): 9. JSTOR 41393514.
  7. Markos Zografos (2021). Genocidal Antisemitism: A Core Ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood (PDF). Oxford; New York; Rome; Toronto; Jerusalem: ISGAP. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-940186-15-3. Archived from the original (Occasional Paper Series no:4/2021) on 25 August 2021.
  8. Noha Mellor (2017). "Islamizing the Palestinian–Israeli con!ict: the case of the Muslim Brotherhood". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 44 (4): 521. doi:10.1080/13530194.2017.1360009. hdl:10547/622427. S2CID 148619177.
  9. Cynthia Farahat (Summer 2011). "The Arab Upheaval: Egypt's Islamist Shadow". Middle East Quarterly. 18 (3).
  10. Christine Sixta Rinehart (2009). "Volatile Breeding Grounds: The Radicalization of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood". Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. 32 (11): 961. doi:10.1080/10576100903262773. S2CID 144844664.
  11. Martin Kramer (1996). Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival: The Politics of Ideas in the Middle East. New Brunswick, NJ; London: Transaction Publishers. p. 206. ISBN 978-1-56000-272-7.
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