Malumat

Malumat (Ottoman Turkish: The Information), also known as Musavver 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 of Sultan Abdulhamit and was one of his supporters.[1] Renée Worringer, a Canadian scholar on the Islamic and Middle East history, describes Malumat as the mouthpiece for Yildiz Palace which refers to the Hamidian era.[2]

Malumat
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CategoriesPolitical magazine
FrequencyWeekly
PublisherIbn Hakkı Mehmet Tahir
Year founded1894
First issueFebruary 1894
Final issue1903
CountryOttoman Empire
Based inIstanbul
LanguageOttoman Turkish
OCLC24325961

History and profile

Malumat was 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] Malumat appeared on Thursdays and billed itself as a literary, scientific and political journal. However, its political content became much more salient than its literary material. Notable contributors included Tevfik Fikret, Cenap Şahabettin, Ahmet Rasim, Yusuf Akçura, Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın, Ahmet Muhtar Paşa, Ahmet Mithat and Nazif Sururi.[1]

In Beirut an Arabic edition of Malumat was published entitled Al Malumat.[3] One of the rivals of Malumat was Servet-i Fünun, a progressive avant-garde Ottoman literary magazine.[1][4]

Malumat, Al Malumat and Servet, a newspaper also published by Mehmet Tahir, covered news accusing the Dutch colonial rule of being hostile to the Muslims living in the Dutch East Indies, including Java.[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] Malumat folded in 1903.[1]

References
  1. 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.
  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). doi:10.1017/S0020743804362033.
  3. Erol 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. 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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