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Malumat

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Malumat
Cover page
CategoriesPolitical magazine
FrequencyWeekly
PublisherIbn Hakkı Mehmet Tahir
Founded1894
First issueFebruary 1894
Final issue1903
CountryOttoman Empire
Based inIstanbul
Language
  • Ottoman Turkish
  • French
OCLC24325961

Malumat(Ottoman Turkish:The Information), also known asMusavver Malumat(Ottoman Turkish:The Pictorial Information), was an Ottoman weekly literary and political magazine which was published in Istanbul in the period 1894–1903.[1]It was circulated during the reign ofSultan Abdulhamitand was one of his supporters.[1]Renée Worringer, a Canadian scholar on the Islamic and Middle East history, describesMalumatas the mouthpiece forYıldız Palacewhich refers to the Hamidian era.[2]

History and profile

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Malumatwas started in 1894, and the first issue appeared in February 1894.[1]Its license holder and publisher was Mehmet Tahir who was an ardent supporter of Sultan Abdulhamit with whom he had close connections.[1]Another figure related to the magazine was Artin Asedoryan who was cited as the owner from 1895 to the 48th issue.[3]Malumatappeared on Thursdays and billed itself as a literary, scientific and political journal.[1]However, its political content became much more salient than its literary material.[1]It contained both Ottoman Turkish and French articles.[4]Notable contributors includedTevfik Fikret,Cenap Şahabettin,Ahmet Rasim,[5]Yusuf Akçura,Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın,Ahmet Muhtar Paşa,Ahmet Mithatand Nazif Sururi.[1]

In Beirut an Arabic edition ofMalumatwas published entitledAl Malumat.[3]One of the rivals ofMalumatwasServet-i Fünun,a progressiveavant-gardeOttoman literary magazine.[1][6]

Malumat,Al MalumatandServet,a newspaper also published by Mehmet Tahir, covered news accusing theDutch colonial ruleof being hostile to theMuslimsliving in theDutch East Indies,includingJava.[3]Upon these news the Dutch ambassador Wilhelm Ferdinand Heinrich von Weckherlin sent a note to the Sultan demanding the cancellation of these publications.[3]The request of the Dutch was followed for a while, but the news continued from 1901.[3]Malumatfolded in 1903.[1]

References

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  1. ^abcdefghiSalih 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 fromthe originalon 20 February 2022.
  2. ^Renée Worringer (May 2004). ""Sick Man of Europe" or "Japan of the near East"?: Constructing Ottoman Modernity in the Hamidian and Young Turk Eras ".International Journal of Middle East Studies.36(2): 207–230.doi:10.1017/S0020743804362033.S2CID156657393.
  3. ^abcdeErol Baykal (2011). "The Ottoman Press and the Dutch East Indies at the beginning of the twentieth century".Turkish Historical Review.2(1): 1–17.doi:10.1163/187754611X570918.
  4. ^Erin Hyde Nolan (Spring 2019)."The Gift of the Abdülhamid II Albums: The Consequences of Photographic Circulation".Circulation.9(2).hdl:2027/spo.7977573.0009.207.
  5. ^Cevat Fehmi Baskut (February 1964). "Prominent Figures in Turkish Journalism".International Communication Gazette.10(1): 88.doi:10.1177/001654926401000113.S2CID144350383.
  6. ^Hatun Altay (2019).Servet Malumat Gazetesi (201-300. Sayılar) Tahlilî Dizin - İnceleme Ve Seçilmiş Metinler(MA thesis) (in Turkish). Cumhuriyet University.
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