Ad-Diya

{{Short description|Cultural magazine published in Egypt (1898–1906)}}

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| image_caption = The first issue of the magazine

| editor = Ibrahīm Al-Yāziǧī

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| category = Culture, anthropology, language, education

| frequency = Twice per month

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| publisher = Ibrahīm Al-Yāziǧī

| founder = Ibrahīm Al-Yāziǧī

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| firstdate = 15 September 1898

| finaldate = 31 July 1906

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| country = Egypt

| based = Cairo

| language = Arabic

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Between 1898 and 1906, the Arabic periodical aḍ-Ḍiyāʾ (Arabic: Illumination) was published twice a month in Cairo.{{cite journal|date=July 1997|author=Elisabeth Kendall|author-link=Elisabeth Kendall|title=The Marginal Voice: Journals and the Avant-garde in Egypt|journal=Journal of Islamic Studies|volume=8|issue=2|page=219|doi=10.1093/jis/8.2.216}}{{cite journal|author=Sabry Hafez|title=Literary Innovations: Schools and Journals|journal=Quaderni di Studi Arabi|year=2000|volume=18|page=24|jstor=25802892}} There are eight year's issues with 24 numbers each (first to third year), resp. 20 numbers each (fourth to eighth year). Its founder and editor in chief was Ibrahīm al-Yāziǧī,{{harvnb|Soueid|1969|pp=8–9}} a linguist and journalist from Lebanon, who on his readers’ request published aḍ-Ḍiyāʾ in succession to his earlier periodical al-Bayān (1897–1898). As regards content, it had the same agenda as al-Bayān.{{harvnb|Soueid|1969|pp=106–114}} The subtitle of the periodical underlines this aspiration: “maǧallat ʿilmīya adabīya ṣaḥīya ṣanāʿīya“ (“a scientific, literary, sanitary and industrial journal”). It was one of the early magazines in Cairo which featured short stories.{{cite thesis|author=Constantin Georgescu|title=A Forgotten Pioneer of the Lebanese Nahdah: Salim al-Bustani (1848–1884)|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/302884803|location=New York University|page=38

|degree=PhD|id={{ProQuest|302884803}}|year=1978|isbn=979-8-204-67080-8}} Alongside countless scientific and literary topics, articles on the development of newspapers in Egypt at that time are also to be found (cf. i. a. 1st year, 1st issue).cf. i. a. aḍ-Ḍiyāʾ, 1st volume, 1st issue, 1898.

A complete and free available digital version{{Cite book|url=http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5:1-68602|title=Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften / ad- ḍīyāʻ|website=nbn-resolving.de|date=3 May 1898 |language=en|access-date=14 March 2018}} of this journal can be found in the digital collections{{Cite web|url=http://digitale-sammlungen.ulb.uni-bonn.de/topic/titles/3080606|title=Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn / Arabische Periodika [1-10]|website=digitale-sammlungen.ulb.uni-bonn.de|access-date=14 March 2018}} of the ULB Bonn.