Terakki-i Muhadderat

Terakki-i Muhadderat (Progress of Muslim Women in English) was a weekly women's magazine which was published in the period 1869–1870 in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire. It was the first Ottoman publication which specifically targeted women.

Terakki-i Muhadderat
CategoriesWomen's magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Year founded1869
First issue27 June 1869
Final issue1870
CountryOttoman Empire
Based inIstanbul
LanguageTurkish

History and profile

Launched in 1869 Terakki-i Muhadderat was the first women's magazine in the Ottoman Empire.[1][2] The magazine was a weekly supplement of Terakki (Progress in English) newspaper[2] published on Sundays.[3] The first issue of the magazine appeared on 27 June 1869.[4]

The only editor of the magazine was Ali Raşit.[4] Terakki-i Muhadderat mostly published the letters from women living in Constantinople.[2] It also featured articles by women dealing with education, Islam, polygamy and the daily problems of discrimination against themselves.[5] The magazine ceased publication in 1870 after producing a total of forty-eight issues.[6][7]

References
  1. Melek Kocabey (1995). The Graphic Designs of Ottoman Women Magazines (MA thesis). Istanbul Technical University.
  2. Tülay Keskin (September 2003). Feminist/Nationalist Discourse in the First Year of Ottoman Revolutionary Press: Readings from the Magazines Demet, Mehasin and Kadın(Salonica) (PDF) (MA thesis). Bilkent University. p. 36. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 March 2019.
  3. Alim Kahraman. "Terakkî". Islam Encyclopedia (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 15 December 2021.
  4. Badegül Eren Aydınlık; Seyfi Kenan (2021). "Between men, time and the state: education of girls during the Late Ottoman Empire (1859–1908)". Paedagogica Historica. 57 (4): 405–406. doi:10.1080/00309230.2019.1660386.
  5. Katharina Knaus (2007). "Turkish Women: A Century of Change" (PDF). Turkish Policy Quarterly. 6 (5). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 November 2021.
  6. V. Devrim Altınöz (2003). The Ottoman Women's Movement: Women's Press, Journals, Magazines and Newspapers from 1875 to 1923 (MA thesis). Miami University.
  7. Bonnie G. Smith (2008). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-19-514890-9.


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