Servet-i Fünun (Ottoman Turkish: ثروت فنون, romanized: S̱ervet-i Funûn, lit.
Evangelia Balta and Ayșe Kavak state that during the late Ottoman Empire it was "[t]he most influential literary journal" which had "a significant role in the intellectual life" of the country.
Servet began running Servet-i Fünûn from 1891 to 1892 with the approval of Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdulhamid II after Nicolaides, in late 1890, applied to create a supplement about industry and science.
[2] Balta and Kavak wrote that relatively little scholarship on Servet-i Fünun describes Nicolaides' initial role and that "The overwhelming majority of scholars ascribe the periodical to Ahmed İhsan".
Major rival of Servet-i Fünun was Malumat, a weekly magazine published by Mehmet Tahir, a supporter of Sultan Abdulhamit.