At-Tabib

The journal At-Tabib (“The doctor“) was edited between 1884 and 1885 by the Lebanese linguist and journalist <a href="/facts/Ibrahim_al-Yaziji/1uUC8M00">Ibrāhīm al-Yāziǧī</a> (1847-1906) as well as by Bišāra Zalzal (1851-1905) and Ḫalīl Saʿāda. In total, they published 24 numbers in one year in <a href="/facts/Beirut/0sxJRAqW">Beirut</a>, coming out every two weeks. The predecessor of At-Tabib, Ahbār Tibbiya (“medical notifications”), had already been founded in 1874 by <a href="/facts/George_E._Post/mnR4RFgh">George E. Post</a> (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 <a href="/facts/American_University_of_Beirut/JRF8pgPg">American University of Beirut</a>, 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 <a href="/facts/Al-Jinan/jMlNxphT">Al-Jinan</a> and <a href="/facts/Al-Muqtataf_(magazine)/nUcHD1sm">Al-Muqtataf</a>. 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 <a href="/facts/Cairo/dXjj60ar">Cairo</a>: <a href="/facts/Al-Bayan_(journal)/fgpmusvb">Al Bayan</a> and <a href="/facts/Ad-Diya/XRueTXWh">Ad-Diya</a>.
Al-Tabib was republished in 1895 and until 1914 by Iskandar al-Baroudi.

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