Sandalcı, Feyz-i Sıbyân’dan Işık’a Feyziye Mektekpleri, 41. The first board,
presided over by Mustafa Tevfik Efendi, consisted of Kitapçi Mustafa Efendi,
Mustafa Faik Efendi (lawyer), Mustafa Cezar Efendi (merchant), Karakaş Meh-
met Efendi (merchant), İpekçi İsmail Efendi (merchant).
Sandalcı, Feyz-i Sıbyân’dan Işık’a Feyziye Mektekpleri, 42 , 190. Sandalcı
gives the year 1937 , although his tombstone reads 1936.
Bernard Lewis, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, 2 nd ed. (London: Ox-
ford University Press, 1968 ), 206.
Terakki Vakfı Şişli Terakki Lisesinin dünü bugünü yarını, 24.
Ibid.; Fortna, Imperial Classroom, 138.
SVS, 1897 – 98 , 273.
Ibid.
SVS, 1907 – 8 , 486.
SVS, 1895 – 96 , 142.
SVS, 1894 – 5 , 133 – 39.
Sandalcı, Feyz-i Sıbyân’dan Işık’a Feyziye Mektekpleri, 51 – 52. “No girls’
school of any description seems to have existed until some dozen years ago,
when an intelligent member of the community, Shemsi Effendi, determined
to remove this cause of reproach from his people, succeeded in opening one on
a small scale at Salonica, which he personally supervised” (Garnett, Women of
Turkey, 103 – 4 ).
Sandalcı, Feyz-i Sıbyân’dan Işık’a Feyziye Mektekpleri, 30 , 38 , 39 , 54 , 66. See
also Ilgaz Zorlu, “Atatürk’ün ilk ögˇretmeni Şemsi Efendi Hakkında bilinmeyen
birkaç nokta,” Toplumsal Tarih 1 ( 1994 ): 59 – 60.
SVS, 1897 – 8 , 272.
SVS, 1907 – 8 , 485.
İlber Ortaylı, “Ottoman Modernisation and Sabetaism,” in Alevi Identity:
Cultural, Religious and Social Perspectives (papers read at a conference held at the
Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, November 25 – 27 , 1996 ), ed. Tord Ols-
son, Elisabeth Özdalga, and Catharina Raudvere (Istanbul: Swedish Research
Institute in Istanbul, 1998 ), 99.
September 6 , 1897 , quoted in Sandalcı, Feyz-i Sıbyân’dan Işık’a Feyziye
Mektekpleri, 56.
