It was published monthly, and funded by the Zamindars of Karatia in Tangail, in present-day Bangladesh.
[1] The Akhbare Islamia was founded in April 1884 by Hafez Mahmud Ali Khan Panni, the erstwhile zamindar (feudal lord) of Karatia.
The magazine was edited by Mohammad Naimuddin, a Muslim theologian and poet.
The movement was fundamentalist in nature that discouraged secular books and music.
[2] It had legal disputes with its contemporary The Ahmadi, a secular Muslim magazine, regarding the killing of cows and Hanafi-Lamazhabi dialogue.