Malumat
{{Short description|Political weekly magazine in Ottoman Empire (1894–1903)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}}
{{Infobox magazine
| image_file = Musavver Gazetesi Serlevhası.png
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| image_caption = Cover page
| editor =
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| frequency = Weekly
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| category = Political magazine
| company =
| publisher = Ibn Hakkı Mehmet Tahir
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| founded = 1894
| firstdate = February 1894
| finaldate = 1903
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| country = Ottoman Empire
| based = Istanbul
| language = {{ubl|Ottoman Turkish|French}}
| oclc = 24325961 }}
Malumat (Ottoman Turkish: The Information), also known as Musavver Malumat (Ottoman Turkish: The Pictorial Information), was an Ottoman weekly literary and political magazine which was published in Istanbul in the period 1894–1903.{{cite journal|author1=Salih Okumuş|author2=Alev Bal|title=Review of the Malumat (Newspaper) in the Respect of Shape, Content and the Authors (the Copies 1-100)|journal=ODU Journal of Social Sciences Research|year=2011|volume=2|issue=3|pages=167–168|archive-date=20 February 2022
|url=https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/odusobiad/issue/27567/290054|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220220072800/https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/odusobiad/issue/27567/290054}} It was circulated during the reign of Sultan Abdulhamit and was one of his supporters. Renée Worringer, a Canadian scholar on the Islamic and Middle East history, describes Malumat as the mouthpiece for Yıldız Palace which refers to the Hamidian era.{{cite journal
|author=Renée Worringer|title="Sick Man of Europe" or "Japan of the near East"?: Constructing Ottoman Modernity in the Hamidian and Young Turk Eras|journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies|date=May 2004|volume=36|issue=2|pages=207–230|doi=10.1017/S0020743804362033
|s2cid=156657393 }}
History and profile
Malumat was started in 1894, and the first issue appeared in February 1894. Its license holder and publisher was Mehmet Tahir who was an ardent supporter of Sultan Abdulhamit with whom he had close connections. Another figure related to the magazine was Artin Asedoryan who was cited as the owner from 1895 to the 48th issue. Malumat appeared on Thursdays and billed itself as a literary, scientific and political journal. However, its political content became much more salient than its literary material. It contained both Ottoman Turkish and French articles.{{cite journal|author=Erin Hyde Nolan|title=The Gift of the Abdülhamid II Albums: The Consequences of Photographic Circulation|journal=Circulation|date=Spring 2019|volume=9|issue=2 |hdl=2027/spo.7977573.0009.207|url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.7977573.0009.207}} Notable contributors included Tevfik Fikret, Cenap Şahabettin, Ahmet Rasim,{{cite journal|author=Cevat Fehmi Baskut|title=Prominent Figures in Turkish Journalism|volume=10|journal=International Communication Gazette|date=February 1964|issue=1|page=88|doi=10.1177/001654926401000113|s2cid=144350383 }} Yusuf Akçura, Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın, Ahmet Muhtar Paşa, Ahmet Mithat and Nazif Sururi.
In Beirut an Arabic edition of Malumat was published entitled Al Malumat. One of the rivals of Malumat was Servet-i Fünun, a progressive avant-garde Ottoman literary magazine.{{cite thesis|author=Hatun Altay|year=2019
|title=Servet Malumat Gazetesi (201-300. Sayılar) Tahlilî Dizin - İnceleme Ve Seçilmiş Metinler|location=Cumhuriyet University|language=tr
|url=https://acikerisim.cumhuriyet.edu.tr/xmlui/handle/20.500.12418/12061|degree=MA}}
Malumat, Al Malumat and Servet, a newspaper also published by Mehmet Tahir, covered news accusing the Dutch colonial rule of being hostile to the Muslims living in the Dutch East Indies, including Java.{{cite journal|author=Erol Baykal|title=The Ottoman Press and the Dutch East Indies at the beginning of the twentieth century|journal=Turkish Historical Review|year=2011|volume=2|issue=1|pages=1–17|doi=10.1163/187754611X570918}} Upon these news the Dutch ambassador Wilhelm Ferdinand Heinrich von Weckherlin sent a note to the Sultan demanding the cancellation of these publications. The request of the Dutch was followed for a while, but the news continued from 1901. Malumat folded in 1903.
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External links
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- [https://archives.saltresearch.org/handle/123456789/1425 Malumat archive] SALT Research
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