The informative booklet (260 x 195mm) is 24 pages with supplementary photographs from within the Ahmed Ihsan printing house.
Servet-i Funun (The Wealth of the Arts/Sciences) was an avant-garde journal published in the Ottoman Empire and later in Turkey. Halit Ziya (Usakligil) and the other writers of the "New Literature" (Ottoman Turkish: Edebiyat-i Cedide) movement published it to inform their readers about European, particularly French, cultural and intellectual movements. 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. Its offices were in the central part of Istanbul. Today the region is known as the Fatih district.
In 1890 20-year old Ahmed Ihsan, who later took the family name Tokgoz, translated articles into Turkish for Servet, an Ottoman Turkish newspaper owned and operated by Ottoman Greek Demetrius Nicolaides. Ahmed Ihsan suggested having a supplement each week. Servet began running Servet-i Funun from 1891 to 1892 with the approval of Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdulhamid II after Nicolaides, in late 1890, applied to create a supplement about industry and science. Nicolaides decided to sell the supplement to Ihsan as he believed not enough copies were being purchased. Evangelia Balta and Ayse Kavak wrote that relatively little scholarship on Servet-i Funun describes Nicolaides' initial role and that "The overwhelming majority of scholars ascribe the periodical to Ahmed Ihsan". Tevfik Fikret became its editor in 1896. Another prominent contributor was the poet Suleyman Nazif. Major rival of Servet-i Funun was Malumat, a weekly magazine published by Mehmet Tahir, a supporter of Sultan Abdulhamit.
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