PENERBITAN MAJALAH AGAMA SEBELUM PERANG DUNIA KEDUA: ANTARA TANGGUNGJAWAB SOSIAL DENGAN PERNIAGAAN

Abstract

Religious magazines have played a very important role in the history of Malay magazines. Twenty percent of 120 magazines published before the Second World War can be categorised in this category. Other type of magazines were literary, Christianity, general interests, organizationals type magazines, and nationalism type of magazines. Matters concerning Islam was closely related to Malay readership. A lot of regular Malay readers were students and teachers of traditional Islamic education systems in pondok schools. Religious magazines in the period before the Second World War can be categorised into three types. They were magazines published respectively by Islamic schools, by Malay social associations, and by private publishers. However, most magazines were published as part of a social responsibility. As such, due to the lack of commercial value, most of them had short life spans.