Sebîlürreşâd (Turkish: Straight Path) was a Turkish print magazine created by Mehmet Akif Ersoy and Eşref Edip Fergan along with Ebül'ula Mardin as its lead writer in August 1908, to spread the idea of Islamism under the name of Sırat-ı Müstakim.[1]
History
editThe magazine was started with the title Sırat-ı Müstakim in 1908.[2][3] It was a weekly Islamic magazine edited by Mehmet Akif, in which the Islamic thought established itself and the theses of the Islamist movement. After the 183rd issue published in 1912 it was renamed as Sebîlürreşâd.[3] Between 1908-1925, 641 issues were published. The magazine was the most important publication of the Islamist movement during the Second Constitution period (1908–1918).[4] It published nearly all sections of Safahat written by Mehmet Akif. The magazine, which was closed in 1925 with the Takrir-i Sükûn (Law on the Maintenance Order in English),[5] was restarted in May 1948 with the Turkish alphabet. It folded in 1966.
Ebül‘ulâ Mardin, its manager, left the magazine when he became a deputy and then a professor, and the technical load and responsibility of the journal remained entirely of Eşref Edip.[6] Due to the misunderstanding of a section in Ispartalı Hakkı's article titled "Akif and Safahat" on 11 May 1911, it was decided to be closed indefinitely by the customary administration, but once the situation was understood, it continued its publication without delay.
The magazine, which initially remained neutral against political parties, changed this attitude after 1911. It was one of the publications which supported the Independence movement led by Mustafa Kemal.[3] The magazine, which paid attention to maintain a publishing policy that is highly compatible with the state mechanism and not to be an element of sedition in the gentle environment of the war years, changed its attitude after the abolition of the caliphate, the closure of madrasas within the framework of the Tevhîd-i Tedrîsat Law, and the abolition of the Ministry of Foundations.[7] Under normal conditions, the magazine, which was published once a week and sixteen pages per week, did not use image materials such as photographs and pictures, except six issues.[8]
The magazine, published in Istanbul, was distributed to many regions of Anatolia. It was able to determine the agenda of Muslims in Russia, India and Middle East.[9]
Among the authors of the weekly magazine were Abdülaziz Çaviş, Bereketzade İsmail Hakkı, Babanzade Ahmet Naim, Ferit Kam, Mehmet Fahrettin, İsmail Hakkı of İzmir, Tâhirü'l-Mevlevî, Aksekili Ahmet Hamdi, Mehmet Şemsettin Günaltay, İsmail Hakkı of Manastir, Mehmet Tahir of Bursa, Yusuf Akçura and Ahmet Ağaoğlu.[10]
The general policy of the magazine was about Islamic unity, Islamic morality, return to the Qur'an and Sunnah, and the acquisition of only Europe's technology. In March 1951 leftist university students organized demonstrations protesting both Sebilürreşad and Büyük Doğu due to their religious approach and were arrested by the Turkish forces.[11]
Spin offs
editAfter 50 years, Sebîlürreşad started publishing by Fatih Bayhan in Ankara again on 14 August 2016.[12]
The magazine was published on the fourteenth day of each month until February 2017.[13] As of March 2017, it started to appear on the 1st of each month and increased the number of pages to 56. In addition, six to eight articles in languages other than Turkish are included in each issue in the new period of Sebîlürreşad. In the January 2017 issue of Sebîlürreşad, the article of the 12th President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, appeared for the first time.
References
edit- ^ "Milli Mücadelenin manevi dergisi: Sebilürreşad". Dünya Bülteni Haber. 18 August 2016. Archived from the original on 18 August 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
- ^ Nobuo Misawa (2009). "The Influence of the Ottoman Print Media in Japan: The Linkage of Intellectuals in the Eurasian World". Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies. 2 (2): 38. doi:10.14989/79942.
- ^ a b c Ceren Sözeri (2019). "The transformation of Turkey's Islamic media and its marriage with neo-liberalism". Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. 19 (1): 156. doi:10.1080/14683857.2019.1579413. S2CID 159250681.
- ^ Menderes Çinar; Ipek Gencel Sezgin (2013). "Islamist Political Engagement in the Early". Turkish Studies. 14 (2): 331. doi:10.1080/14683849.2013.802921. hdl:11693/20939. S2CID 144607453.
- ^ Kasuya Gen (2006). "The Influence of Al-Manar onIslamism in Turkey. The case of Mehmed Âkif" (PDF). In Stéphane A. Dudoignon; Komatsu Hisao; Kosugi Yasushi (eds.). Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World.Transmission, Transformation and Communication. London; New York: Routledge. pp. 85–116. ISBN 9780415549790. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 April 2021.
- ^ "SEBÎLÜRREŞÂD". TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi (in Turkish).
- ^ "ŞER'İYYE ve EVKAF VEKÂLETİ". TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi (in Turkish).
- ^ "Sebilürreşad (Sırat-ı Müstakim)". Turkey's National Library. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
The issues which had any photographs or pictures were the issues of 113, 193, 213, 231, 244 and 320.
- ^ "Sırat-ı Müstakim". Genç Doku. 4 March 2016. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
- ^ "Dr. M. Suat Mertoğlu: Sırat-ı Müstakim, Türk Düşünce Tarihinin En Önemli Yayın Organlarından Biridir!". Genç Doku. 5 July 2015. Archived from the original on 5 July 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
- ^ Bernard Lewis (January 1952). "Islamic Revival in Turkey". International Affairs. 28 (1): 46. doi:10.2307/2604969. JSTOR 2604969.
- ^ "Dedemin hayali 'asım'ın nesli' sokaklarda - Pazar Sabah Haberleri". Sabah. 4 August 2016. Archived from the original on 4 August 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
- ^ "Sebîlürreşad kaldığı yerden devam ediyor". Hürriyet. 18 August 2016. Archived from the original on 18 August 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
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