ما هي الصحافة ؟ وكيف تطورت ؟ .. كتاب معلم الصحافة والإنشاء

What is journalism? How did you develop?

Linguistic meaning

Let us return to a book of the language in which we search for the linguistic meaning of this word, and let it be Mukhtar al-Sihah, which is the most concise of them. We find what it says: (Sahifa: The plural is Sahifa and Sahaif, and the Qur’an is with the dhamma of the meem and its kasra, and its origin is dhamm because it is taken from Ashaf, meaning in which the Sahaif is collected).

So the newspaper is a name for what is written on anything suitable for writing, not just the material that is suitable for that, such as a piece of leather or paper. It has been used since ancient times to mean everything that contains news, announcements, or information. The Arabs at the beginning of the call and their document in which they stipulated boycotting the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and whoever follows him is a sheet of paper and they hung it on the wall of the Kaaba so that all the people would know what was in it. It also appeared in the Holy Qur’an indicating What was revealed to the prophets and messengers of the news of the nations, the laws, the heavenly systems, and other matters of life. God Almighty said: (Indeed, these are the first scriptures, the scriptures of Abraham and Moses.) However, he neglected to use them in their meaning for a period of time until Rashid al-Dahdah revived them in the year 1858 and prepared the generalizations with them. Foreign ones, such as newspapers and journals.