'The Gardens') was an Arabic-language political and literary biweekly magazine established in Beirut by Butrus al-Bustani and active between 1870 and 1886.
[3] Written largely by Butrus' son Salim, who became its editor-in-chief in 1871,[3] the magazine finally ceased to appear because of the growing difficulties of writing freely in the Ottoman Empire under the rule of Sultan Abdülhamid.
[5] It was the first significant example of the kind of literary and scientific periodicals which began to appear in the 1870s in Arabic alongside the independent political newspapers.
[3][5] One of the novels serialized in the magazine was Salim Butrus' historical novel Passion during the Conquests of Syria (Arabic: الهيام في فتوح الشام, romanized: Al-Ḥayām fī Futūḥ al-Shām, 1884), which is about the 634–8 Muslim conquest of the Levant.
[3] Following its success local agents were employed to collect subscriptions in the cities, including Baghdad, Basra, Cairo, Alexandria, Aleppo, Assiut, Casablanca, Tangier, London, Paris and Berlin.