Servet-i Fünun
Literary weekly magazine in Ottoman Empire (1891–1944) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Servet-i Fünun (Ottoman Turkish: ثروت فنون, romanized: Ṣervet-i Fünūn, lit. 'The Wealth of the Arts/Sciences[lower-alpha 1]'; 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]
Categories | Literary magazine |
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Frequency | Weekly |
Country | Ottoman Empire |
Based in | Istanbul |
Language | Ottoman Turkish (earlier issues) Turkish (later issues) French for the French supplements) |
OCLC | 183347868 |
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]