SAMİZADE SÜREYYA BEY VE JAPONYA’DAN ALINACAK DERSLER
Süreyya Bey was born in 1895 in Istanbul. His father, Ebussüreyya Sami Bey, was a clerk at the Naval Ministry Warehouse Office at the time. He also studied at the American University of Beirut while his father served in various parts of the Syrian province. Süreyya Bey started to write articles on p...
| Published in: | Osmanli Mirasi Arastirmalari Dergisi |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English Turkish |
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Osmanlı Mirası Araştırmaları Dergisi
2020
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.17822/omad.2020.173 https://doaj.org/article/1a4f0d573697400cbc148af541ca935d |
| Summary: | Süreyya Bey was born in 1895 in Istanbul. His father, Ebussüreyya Sami Bey, was a clerk at the Naval Ministry Warehouse Office at the time. He also studied at the American University of Beirut while his father served in various parts of the Syrian province. Süreyya Bey started to write articles on politics, culture and history in various magazines and newspapers, in a relatively young age, since the beginning of the 1910s. In 1914, Süreyya Bey made a plan to go to Japan, which he had read a lot about. He left Istanbul in April-May 1914 onboard a ship. Süreyya Bey had reached Japan when the World War started. He probably spent 1915 in Japan. He left Japan in late 1915 or early 1916. After Japan, Süreyya Bey went to America, which had not yet entered the war at that time, and from there he stopped by England. Subsequently he passed to Germany with whom we were allies with, and from there returned to Istanbul. The idea that Islamic and Eastern societies lagged behind the civilized world was one of the main arguments of Samizade Süreyya Bey's writings. Accordingly, as a name who traveled both East and West at a young age, he was a name who tried to produce a remedy for the problems of the Orient and Islam based on his experiences and readings. In one of his articles about the Islamic world in 1911, Süreyya Bey claimed that Muslims had gone through 3 periods; these developed after the manifestation of Islam and were 1- The era of civilization with the treasures of science and education, 2- decline and invalid, that is, the period of descent / collapse, and 3- renaissance and vigilance periods that did not take place before 1911. According to Süreyya Bey, the Orient had been lazy for the last two centuries, yet at the same time its demands never ended. Furthermore, the Orientals were indifferent in their duties towards the homeland. They had no “mutual benefits and actions” nor specific purpose. They did not know where and why they are going; although they wanted to move forward, they could not figure out the path and ... |
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