Английская Википедия:Hekmat

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Hekmat (Шаблон:Lang-fa –"Wisdom") was the first Persian-language newspaper published in Egypt,Шаблон:Sfn and the first Persian journal published in an Arab country.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Founded and managed by the Iranian expatriate Mohammad-Mahdi Tabrizi (died 1914), a physician by profession, it was published from 20 September 1892 until 30 May 1911.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn-ua Hekmat carried primarily news, but also featured a variety of articles on political and social issues.Шаблон:Sfn Despite being published in an Arab country, it avoided using Arabic terms and Arabic forms of non-Arab words in its content.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

With prose described as being "among the best of its time", Hekmat was known to be supportive of introducing modern science into Iran,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn and was a defender of Shia Islam in the country. It was, however, critical of Christian missionary activity as well as of Russian, British and Ottoman interference in Iranian politics,Шаблон:Sfn Hekmat helped pave the way for the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911) and, during the Constitutional era, unconditionally supported the Constitutionalists and staunchly defended the press in Iran.Шаблон:Sfn

Circulation and format

For the first eight years of its circulation, it was published weekly. This was later reduced to three publications per month for the following five years. In the final six years, it was published every two weeks.Шаблон:Sfn

Tabrizi received some support from the Iranian consul in Cairo,Шаблон:Sfn but he worked alone on the paper.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn This resulted in several interruptions, one of them being in 1898-1902 due to illness, but later also due to his travels and a change in printing house.Шаблон:Sfn From 1895, the newspaper was distributed from a printing house that Tabrizi himself owned.Шаблон:Sfn

The first issue of Hekmat was four pages long, but all subsequent issues, for the next seven years, were of eight pages and had a 47 x 34 cm format with "three columns of text". In the eighth year of publication, its format changed to 19 x 27.5 cm and the number of pages increased from eight to sixteen. The number of columns of text decreased to two, but it began to include an "occasional illustration". In the thirteenth year of publication, the newspaper called itself a majalleh (magazine).Шаблон:Sfn Of the various Persian-language newspapers that were published in Egypt, Hekmat distinguished itself by paying particular attention to "cultural developments" in Egypt.Шаблон:Sfn In the first three years of publication, some issues of Hekmat also featured contemporary Arabic poetry,Шаблон:Sfn as well as Persian translations of works by Egyptian writers.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Subscription

Subscription costs in Iran were twenty-five qerāns per year, in the first three years of publication. In the fourth year, this was increased to forty qerāns.Шаблон:Sfn At one point, during the early years of publication, the price was raised to fifty, but this was reduced relatively quickly due to subscriber dissatisfaction.Шаблон:Sfn Outside of Iran, the subscription costs were ten rubles per year in Russia, twenty Francs in the Ottoman Empire, ten rupees in British India, and twenty-five Francs "elsewhere".Шаблон:Sfn In the final years of publication, the subscription costs of Hekmat were one pound sterling in Egypt, Europe, the United States and China, while in British India it became fifteen rupees. Hekmat was "not prices for single copies", and it published "very few advertisements".Шаблон:Sfn

Though little information is available concerning its press run, the existence of the paper in an extensive number of private libraries show that Hekmat was widely read.Шаблон:Sfn Outside of Iran, incomplete collections are kept in the libraries of the University of Cambridge and the Princeton University.Шаблон:Sfn

Sources

• Шаблон:Encyclopaedia Iranica
• Шаблон:Encyclopædia Iranica Online