Editor | Kazanlı Halim Sabit |
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Categories | Political magazine |
Frequency | Biweekly |
Founded | 1914 |
First issue | 12 February 1914 |
Final issue | 30 October 1918 |
Country | Ottoman Empire |
Based in | Constantinople |
Language | Ottoman Turkish |
İslam Mecmuası ( Turkish: Journal of Islam) was a biweekly political magazine which was published in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, between 1914 and 1918. It is known as being one of the early publications which attempted to provide a synthesis of the nationalism and Islamism, and its motto was dinli bir hayat, hayatlı bir din ( Turkish: A life with religion, a religion with life). [1] [2] It was sponsored by the Committee of Union and Progress.
İslam Mecmuası was established in 1914 and financed by the Committee of Union and Progress. [1] Its first issue was published on 12 February 1914. [1] Kazanlı Halim Sabit served as its editor. [3] The magazine came out biweekly and was headquartered in Constantinople. [1] [4] İslam Mecmuası had thirty-two pages, but then it was reduced to sixteen pages due to paper shortage during World War I. [1] It was printed by different publishing houses throughout its existence. [3]
The magazine aimed at producing a synthesis of the nationalism and Islamism [1] and at presenting a reformist and liberal version of Islam which would be much more compatible with modern lifestyles. [2] [5] Unlike other Islamist publications it focused on the social roles and functions of Islam. [1] İslam Mecmuası published the announcement of jihad in November 1914. [4] It ceased publication on 30 October 1918 after producing a total of sixty-three issues. [3] [5]
Notable contributors of İslam Mecmuası included Ahmet Ağaoğlu, Besim Atalay, Aka Gündüz and Ömer Seyfettin. [1] They were from three different groups: ulemas such as Shaykh al-Islām Musa Kazım Efendi, İzmirli İsmail Hakkı and Şerafeddin Yaltıkaya, Islamic reformers such as Şemsettin Günaltay and Halim Sabit, and pan-Turkists such as Ziya Gökalp and Mehmet Fuat Köprülü. [6]
Contributors of İslam Mecmuası often confronted with the conservative Islamists whose media outlet was Sebilürreşad journal. [5] [7] The debates were mostly about the reform in Islam and began just after the publication of Ziya Gökalp's article entitled Fıkıh ve İçtimaiyat (Ottoman Turkish: Fiqh and Sociology) in İslam Mecmuası. [7] The tensions between two camps increased in 1915 when İslam Mecmuası openly supported the restrictions on the authority of the Shaykh al-Islām. [5] [7]
İslam Mecmuası was the first publication in the Empire which introduced the views of Ibn Taymiyyah, a Salafi thinker, through the articles of Şerafeddin Yaltıkaya. [6]