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. 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“).cf. Ḥikmet, 1910–1911. 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.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. Hilmi's criticism of the İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti (“Committee of Union and Progress”) ultimately led to the suspension of Hikmet.Ahmet Şeyhun: Islamist Thinkers in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic, Leiden 2014, p. 165. In addition to Hikmet, Hilmi also published the journals Çaylak, İttihat-ı İslam and Coşkun Kalender.
References
Further reading Adeeb Khalid: The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia, 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