A research on Ali Emiri's Ottoman History and literature periodical

In this study, first Ali Emiri's "Ottoman History and Literature Periodical" and then another periodical named "History and Literature Periodical" are studied from various perspective. Ali Emiri mentioned his life widely in his book named Tezkire-i Şuara-yı Âmid. Various articles and books were published about Ali Emiri. These studies generally depend upon the information in Tezkire-i Şuara-yı Âmid.In our study, various information about Ali Emiri which is supported by the sources in Ottoman History and Literature Periodical was collected and rewritten. Moreover new information about Emiri's books is given and his importance in our literature is emphasized. Ali Emiri published his Periodical in two editions. The first series was published between 1334-1336 (31 March 1918-30-September 1920) named Ottoman History and Literature Periodical and the second series was published in 1338 (13 August 1922-5 January 1923) named History and Literature. The first series was published as 956 pages and 31 volumes and the second one is published as 100 pages and 5 volumes. Emiri started to publish his first volume as 16 pages and then every year he doubled the pages so that in the second year it was published as 32 an in the third year 48 pages. In his Periodical, 359 poems and 271 proses are determined and this constitutes 630 titles. In our study, the articles in this periodical are divided into two groups as history and literature. On the other hand the articles about history which are very few are classified as old and current history. The most comprehensive part in this periodical is composed of literature articles. This part is also divided into two parts as verse and phrase. Poems that are more than prose are evaluated in another part. In this part poems are studied in terms of their verse shapes and their poets. There are 5 anonymous poems and totally there are 123 poets. Their 354 poems are published. Lyric poem comes first among the other types because it has 277 examples itself. Also in this periodical, with his 94 books Ali Emiri comes first. Prose is composed of critical articles. These critical articles are evaluated in two parts: The first one is general critical articles about different topics and the second one is the one which is written for Fuad Köprülü. Some of these general critical articles are directed to such institutions like Founded Ministry and National Education Ministry.