Fatma Aliye Hanım’ın Tarihçiliği

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Abstract   Fatma Aliye Hanim and Historiography Fatma Aliye (1862-1936) was a popular female author one of the first women authors of Turkish history, she was better known as a novelist. However, Fatma Aliye also published works on philosophy, Islam, women, poetry and history. Her historical works have been generally ignored and have not yet been analyzed.Two of her works are evidence of her worth as an historian. The first one published in 1331 (1912-1913) was titled Tarih-i Osmaninin Bir Devre-i Muhimmesi Kosova Zaferi-Ankara Hezimeti (An Important Era of Ottoman History: Kosovo VictoryAnkara Defeat) and the second one published in 1916 was Ahmed Cevdet Pasha ve Zamani (Ahmed Cevdet Pasha and his time). This article aims to analyse and evaluate Fatma Aliye’s history writing. In this respect, her use of local and foreign sources, her handling of historical events, her style and language and her approaches to historical events will be examined. The way Fatma Aliye-- probably the first Turkish female history writer-evaluated historical events from a woman’s perspective is also examined.