Ahmed İhsan and the 'Wealth of the Sciences'. Issue 2 (3rd March 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wasti, Syed Tanvir
• Is Part Of: Middle Eastern studies. Volume 52:Issue 2(2016)
• Page Start: 359
• Page End: 374
• Publication Date: 2016-03-03
• Subjects: Culture -- education -- politics -- Turkish Journalism -- biography -- Ottoman Press; Middle East -- Periodicals; Moyen-Orient -- Périodiques; 956.005
• DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2015.1119124
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0026-3206

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In the past, weekly journals often served as the primary vehicle for the publication and dissemination of high-quality literature. Novels and plays were often serialized in such periodicals, which also featured items of poetry, essays and even political analysis. The Turkish weekly Servet-i Fünun [Wealth of the Sciences] which began publishing in 1891 and closed down in 1944 attracted contributions from the best Turkish writers of its time, and its very name became a banner for new currents in Turkish literature, whether poetry or prose. Part of its success was due to the single-minded labours of its founder and editor, Ahmed İhsan, a journalist and novelist of distinction. The article attempts to assign to the journal and its editor their proper place within the history of Turkish literary journalism.