Akhbare Islamia

{{Short description|Defunct Bengali-language magazine}}{{Infobox magazine | title = Akhbare Islamia<br>আখবারে এসলামীয়া | logo = | logo_size =  | image_file =  | image_size =  | image_alt = | image_caption = | editor = [[Naimuddin]] | editor_title =  | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = | frequency = | format = | circulation = | publisher = | paid_circulation = | unpaid_circulation = | circulation_year = | total_circulation = | founder = [[Mahmud Ali Khan Panni]] | founded = | firstdate = April 1884 | finaldate =  | finalnumber = | company = | country = [[Bengal Presidency]] | based = [[Tangail District|Tangail]], Bengal Presidency, [[British Raj]] | language = [[Bengali language|Bengali]] }} '''''Akhbare Islamia''''' ({{langx|bn|আখবারে এসলামীয়া||Islamic newspaper}}) was a late 19th-century [[Bengali language|Bengali]]-language magazine. It was published monthly and funded by the [[Karatia Zamindari|Zamindars of Karatia]] in [[Tangail District|Tangail]], in present-day Bangladesh. The magazine mainly discussed subjects relating to the ''[[Sharia]]'' (Islamic law), [[Islamic theology]], biographies of Muslims, and [[Islamic culture]] as well as contemporary social and religious issues.<ref name=bpedia>{{cite Banglapedia|author=Ahmed, Wakil|article=Akhbare Islamia}}</ref>

==History== The ''Akhbare Islamia'' was founded in April 1884 by Hafez Mahmud Ali Khan Panni, the erstwhile ''[[Zamindars of Bengal|zamindar]]'' (feudal lord) of [[Karatia Zamindari|Karatia]]. The magazine was edited by [[Naimuddin|Mohammad Naimuddin]], a Muslim theologian and poet. It was published until 1894 and restarted publication in April 1896 with a different format. However, it was permanently disbanded not long after.<ref name=bpedia/>

==Content== The magazine was part of an Islamic morality in Bengal that promoted Islam that was common among Bengali Muslims. The movement was [[Fundamentalism#Islamic|fundamentalist]] in nature that discouraged secular books and music.<ref>{{cite book |author=Mahua Sarkar|title=Visible Histories, Disappearing Women: Producing Muslim Womanhood in Late Colonial Bengal |date=2010|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=9780822389033|page=99|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SR6uC5CTYaMC&q=Akhbare+Islamia&pg=PA99|language=en}}</ref> It had legal disputes with its contemporary, ''[[The Ahmadi]]'', a secular Muslim magazine, regarding the killing of cows and [[Hanafi]]-[[Ahl-i Hadith|Lamazhabi]] dialogue.<ref>{{cite Banglapedia|author=[[Wakil Ahmed|Ahmed, Wakil]]|article=Ahmadi, The}}</ref>

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