al-Tabshir wa al-Isti'mar fi al-Bilad al-Arabiya Ard li Juhud al-Mubashshirin allati Tarmi ila Ikhda al-Sharq lil-Isti'mar al-Gharbi

al-Tabshir wa al-Isti'mar fi al-Bilad al-Arabiya: Ard li-Juhud al-Mubashshirin allati Tarmi ila Ikhda' al-Sharq lil-Isti'mar al-Gharbi (Missionary Activity and Imperialism in the Arab Lands: A Survey of Missionary Efforts Aimed at Subjugating the East to Western Imperialism) is an Arabic historical and ideological treatise co-authored by Mustafa al-Khalidi and Umar Farrukh al-Tabshir wa al-Isti'mar…. Completed in 1953, the work examines the historical collaboration between Western Christian missionary movements and modern European colonial expansion across the Arab and Islamic world al-Tabshir wa al-Isti'mar…+1.

Authorship and Purpose

The book was jointly written by the Lebanese physician and writer Mustafa al-Khalidi (1895–1977 CE), who served as the director of the National School of Nursing in Beirut and previously taught obstetrics at the American University of Beirut, and the Lebanese academic Umar Farrukh (1906–1987 CE), a member of the Arab Scientific Academy in Damascus, the Arabic Language Academy in Cairo, and the Islamic Research Association in Bombay al-Tabshir wa al-Isti'mar…+1.

The authors dated their initial dedication on 23 Jumada al-Ula 1372 AH / 8 February 1953 CE, addressing the work to Muslim and Christian Arab youth and to the emerging leaders of the Arab and Islamic world al-Tabshir wa al-Isti'mar…. Their stated objective was to raise political and cultural awareness regarding the hazards of missionary enterprises, demonstrating that modern Western missions operated primarily as political, cultural, and intelligence vanguards to entrench foreign hegemony rather than as purely spiritual endeavors al-Tabshir wa al-Isti'mar…+1.

Themes and Method

The work surveys the motives, instruments, and spheres of missionary activities in the Arab provinces Lamahat fi al-Maktaba wa …. It highlights how educational institutions, medical missions, publications, and social organizations were utilized to weaken cultural identity, promote regional divisions, encourage the adoption of colloquial dialects over Classical Arabic, and sever younger generations from their Arab and Islamic heritage al-Tabshir wa al-Isti'mar…+1. The authors argue that Western colonial powers viewed the latent cultural and spiritual unity of Islam as the primary obstacle to imperial control al-Tabshir wa al-Isti'mar….

Methodologically, the book relies directly on printed Western, colonial, and missionary publications and conference proceedings available in contemporary libraries al-Tabshir wa al-Isti'mar…. The authors quote extensively from prominent figures such as Samuel Zwemer and Takle to illustrate the strategies used in missionary schooling and foreign administrations, linking the passages with brief connective prose Majallat al-Buhuth al-Isl…+1.

Among its sections:

• The third and fourth chapters focus on the role of education and secularized Western-style schooling in missionary strategies Majallat al-Buhuth al-Isl….
• The twelfth chapter examines the overall results of missionary work, religious dialogue, and the alignment of missionary and colonial policies in Palestine al-Tabshir wa al-Isti'mar…+1.

Publication History and Translations

The first edition appeared in 1953, followed by a second edition in 1957 published by al-Maktaba al-Asriyya in Sidon and Beirut al-Tabshir wa al-Isti'mar…+1. A third edition was released in 1964 with supplementary material documenting missionary and colonial policies in Africa, followed by a fourth edition in 1970 and a fifth edition in 1393 AH / 1973 CE al-Tabshir wa al-Isti'mar…+3. The single-volume work, comprising 279 pages, was reprinted by al-Maktaba al-Asriyya in 1406 AH / 1986 CE al-Tabshir wa al-Isti'mar…+1.

During the circulation of its second Arabic edition, the book was translated into Russian and issued in two editions al-Tabshir wa al-Isti'mar….