'The Master') was a satirical, literary and political journal that was established by Abdullah Al Nadim in Cairo, Egypt, and published for eleven months in the period August 1892–June 1893.
Although it was a short-lived publication, it played an important role in the development of short story genre in Arabic.
[3] Sabry Hafez argues that of his journals Al Ustadh is the most prominent one in terms of its influence.
[8] The fictional materials were written in the colloquial prose like those in Abu Naddara, a magazine by Yaqub Sanu.
[3][10] He also published sketches of hashish consumption which he considered as one of the reasons for the underdeveloped status of the Egyptian society.