Lughat al-Arab

Lughat al-Arab was a monthly linguistic and history magazine which was published in Baghdad between 1911 and 1931 with a twelve-year interruption.

History and profile

Lughat al-Arab was launched by the Carmelite father Anastase-Marie al-Karmali in Baghdad in 1911. It was published in Baghdad on a monthly basis. The magazine featured articles on language, history, literature and science. In the first issue the goal of Lughat al-Arab was stated as follows:
Al-Karmali edited the magazine. The last issue appeared in June 1914. Al-Karmali was sent to exile in Anatolia in 1916, and following his return to Baghdad Lughat al-Arab was restarted in 1926. The magazine permanently folded in 1931. In this second period Kazim al-Dujayli and Iraqi linguist and historian Muhammad Bahjat Athari were among the contributors of Lughat al-Arab.
Each issue of Lughat al-Arab published during its first phase was archived under the OpenArabicPE's Corpus.