Terakki-i Muhadderat

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

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.

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. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b 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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