[3][4] The founding owner of the biweekly was Jamʿiyyat al-Funun (Arabic: Society of the Arts) led by Saad al Din Hamada.
[11] In addition to Muslim contributors, some significant Christian authors also published articles in Thamarāt al Funūn, including Adib Ishaq and Yaqub Sarruf.
[15] In general, the paper addressed issues of common concern in the Arabic-language press during the Nahda era, which also included questions of modernization, Westernization, comparative culture, national identity, and liberalism.
[1] During the editorship of Abdel Qader Qabbani Thamarāt al Funūn covered the Dreyfus affair in detail and argued that this incident was a result of the failure of French politics in realizing its ideal of citizenship.
[20] Donald J. Cioeta's 1979 PhD thesis at the University of Chicago, Thamarat al funun, Syria's first Islamic newspaper, 1875-1908, provides an analysis of the paper.