Servet-i Fünun

Servet-i Fünun
Issue dated 24 December 1908
CategoriesLiterary magazine
FrequencyWeekly
CountryOttoman Empire
Based inIstanbul
LanguageOttoman Turkish (earlier issues)
Turkish (later issues)
French for the French supplements)
OCLC183347868

Servet-i Fünun (Ottoman Turkish: ثروت فنون, romanized: S̱ervet-i Funûn, lit. 'The Wealth of the Arts/Sciences[a]'; French: Servetifunoun) was an avant-garde journal published in the Ottoman Empire and later in Turkey. Halit Ziya (Uşaklıgil) and the other writers of the "New Literature" (Ottoman Turkish: Edebiyat-i Jedide) movement published it to inform their readers about European, particularly French, cultural and intellectual movements.[1] In operation from 1891 until 1944, it was for its first year a supplement of the newspaper Servet, but became an independent publication from 1892.[2]

Its offices were in Stamboul, the central part of Constantinople (now known in English as Istanbul).[3] Today the region is known as the Fatih district.

Evangelia Balta and Ayșe Kavak state that during the late Ottoman Empire it was "[t]he most influential literary journal" which had "a significant role in the intellectual life" of the country.[2] Other titles of the magazine were Uyanış, Resimli Uyaniş, and Terwet-i fünūn.[4]

History

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In 1890 20-year old Ahmed İhsan, who later took the family name Tokgöz, translated articles into Turkish for Servet, an Ottoman Turkish newspaper owned and operated by Ottoman Greek Demetrius Nicolaides. Ahmed İhsan suggested having a supplement each week. Servet began running Servet-i Fünûn from 1891 to 1892 with the approval of Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdulhamid II after Nicolaides, in late 1890, applied to create a supplement about industry and science. Nicolaides decided to sell the supplement to İhsan as he believed not enough copies were being purchased.[2] Balta and Kavak wrote that relatively little scholarship on Servet-i Fünun describes Nicolaides' initial role and that "The overwhelming majority of scholars ascribe the periodical to Ahmed İhsan".[2]

Tevfik Fikret became its editor in 1896.[5] Another prominent contributor was the poet Süleyman Nazif.

Major rival of Servet-i Fünun was Malumat, a weekly magazine published by Mehmet Tahir, a supporter of Sultan Abdulhamit.[6]

Contents

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Halit Ziya's romance novel Aşk-ı Memnu was serialized in the journal in 1899 and 1900. The novel has since been adapted into several television series, the best known of which is the internationally popular 2008–10 series of the same name.

Legacy

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Multiple PhD theses and academic articles were dedicated to this publication.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Servet-i Fünun Encyclopædia Britannica. 2010.
  2. ^ a b c d e Evangelia Balta; Ayşe Kavak (2018). "Publisher of the newspaper Konstantinoupolis for half a century. Following the trail of Dimitris Nikolaidis in the Ottoman archives". In Börte Sagaster; Theoharis Stavrides; Birgitt Hoffmann (eds.). Press and Mass Communication in the Middle East: Festschrift for Martin Strohmeier. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press. pp. 46, 57. doi:10.20378/irbo-50016. ISBN 978-3-86309-527-7.
  3. ^ "Servet-i Fünun". Salt Research (in Ottoman Turkish) (1332). Bureaux: Nouri-Osmanié Stamboul Stamboul here means the old walled city, what is now Fatih District (see Names of Istanbul). The primary language of the page is Ottoman Turkish but some information is also stated in French.
  4. ^ worldcat.org, Servetifünun haftalık resimli türk gazetesi
  5. ^ Muhammad Rashid Feroze (1976). Islam and Secularism in Post-Kemalist Turkey. Islamabad: Islamic Research Institute. p. 116. ASIN B007F7J7BO.
  6. ^ Salih Okumuş; Alev Bal (2011). "Review of the Malumat (Newspaper) in the Respect of Shape, Content and the Authors (the Copies 1-100)". ODU Journal of Social Sciences Research. 2 (3): 167–168. Archived from the original on 20 February 2022.

Notes

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  1. ^ "Fünūn" is the plural form of "fen(n)", which properly means "art" in the sense of "liberal arts"; therefore, "learned skill".
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