Hikmet (magazine) explained

Ḥikmet
Category:	Sufism
Publisher:	Şehbenderzâde Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi
Firstdate:	22 April 1910
Finaldate:	22 September 1911
Country:	Ottoman Empire
Based:	Istanbul
Language:	Ottoman-Turkish
Website:	Ḥikmet

The weekly journal Hikmet (Ottoman-Turkish: حکمت; DMG: Ḥikmet; English: "Wisdom"), published in Istanbul from 1910 to 1911, was one of the first sufistic journals that were founded during the Second Constitutional Period.^[1] It was published by Şehbenderzâde Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi (1865-1914), a Turkish Sufi, author and thinker. The journal had the subtitle “Unity is life and dissension is death“ („İttihad hayattır, tefrika memattır“).^[2] Two volumes with a total of 79 issues were published and covered political, economic and social topics as well as articles on philosophy, islamic mysticism and sufistic literature.^[3] Hilmi's criticism of the “Committee of Unity and Progress” (İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti) ultimately led to the suspension of the journal Hikmet.^[4] In addition to Hikmet Hilmi also published the journals Çaylak, İttihat-ı İslam and Coşkun Kalender.

Further reading

• Adeeb Khalid: , Los Angeles 1998.
• A. Koçak: Bir Balkan Muhaciri: Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi Ve ‘Hikmet’ Gazetesinde Balkanlar, Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi And Balkans In The Newspaper Of “Hikmet, In: Motif Akademi Halk Bilimi Dergisi (Motif Academy Folklare Journal), 2012.
• Ahmet Şeyhun: Islamist Thinkers in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic, Leiden 2014.

External links

• Online-Version: Ḥikmet
• Digital Collections: Arabische, persische und osmanisch-türkische Periodika

Notes and References

1. Book: Kasuya Gen. 2006. Stephane A. Dudoignon. Komatsu Hisao. Kosugi Yasushi. Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World. Routledge. London. 78. 9780203028315. The influence of al-Manar on Islamism in Turkey: the case of Mehmed Âkif. 10.4324/9780203028315-10. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780203028315-10/influence-al-manar-islamism-turkey-case-mehmed-%C3%A2kif-kasuya-gen?context=ubx&refId=04238220-94a5-4653-8aad-cc3cf8a5d6ae.
2. cf. Ḥikmet, 1910–1911.
3. A. Koçak: Bir Balkan Muhaciri: Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi Ve ‘Hikmet’ Gazetesinde Balkanlar, Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi And Balkans In The Newspaper Of “Hikmet, In: Motif Akademi Halk Bilimi Dergisi (Motif Academy Folklare Journal), 2012, p. 252-273.
4. Ahmet Şeyhun: Islamist Thinkers in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic, Leiden 2014, p. 165.