Terakki-i Muhadderat (Ottoman Turkish: Progress of Muslim Women) 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.[1]

Terakki-i Muhadderat
EditorAli Raşit
CategoriesWomen's magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Founded1869
First issue27 June 1869
Final issueSeptember 1870
CountryOttoman Empire
Based inConstantinople
LanguageOttoman Turkish

History and profile

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Launched in 1869 Terakki-i Muhadderat was the first women's magazine in the Ottoman Empire.[2][3] The magazine was a weekly supplement of Terakki (Ottoman Turkish: Progress) newspaper.[3][4] It was published on Sundays.[5] The first issue of the magazine appeared on 27 June 1869.[6]

The only editor of the magazine was Ali Raşit.[6] Terakki-i Muhadderat mostly published the letters from women living in Constantinople.[3] It also featured articles written by women dealing with education, Islam, polygamy and the daily problems of discrimination against themselves.[7] The magazine ceased publication in September 1870 after producing a total of forty-eight issues.[8][9][10]

References

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  1. ^ Serpil Atamaz Hazar (2010). The Hands that Rock the Cradle will Rise: Women, Gender, and Revolution in Ottoman Turkey, 1908-1918 (PhD thesis). University of Arizona. p. 79. hdl:10150/196048.
  2. ^ Melek Kocabey (1995). The Graphic Designs of Ottoman Women Magazines (MA thesis). Istanbul Technical University. hdl:11527/17731.
  3. ^ 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) (MA thesis). Bilkent University. p. 36. hdl:11693/29412.
  4. ^ Derya İner (2015). "Gaining a Public Voice: Ottoman women's struggle to survive in the print life of early twentieth-century Ottoman society, and the example of Halide Edib (1884–1964)". Women's History Review. 24 (6): 972. doi:10.1080/09612025.2015.1034603. S2CID 142999942.
  5. ^ Alim Kahraman. "Terakkî". Islam Encyclopedia (in Turkish).
  6. ^ 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. S2CID 203437211.
  7. ^ Katharina Knaus (2007). "Turkish Women: A Century of Change". Turkish Policy Quarterly. 6 (5).
  8. ^ Nicole A. N. M. van Os (2005). "Ottoman Muslim and Turkish women in an international context". European Review. 13 (3): 461. doi:10.1017/S1062798705000578. S2CID 145643061.
  9. ^ V. Devrim Altınöz (2003). The Ottoman Women's Movement: Women's Press, Journals, Magazines and Newspapers from 1875 to 1923 (MA thesis). Miami University.
  10. ^ Bonnie G. Smith (2008). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-19-514890-9.