One of the subjects that Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi engaged in an intellectual struggle over is feminism. In his own words, feminism is one of the currents of thought that began to be discussed, debated, and even seen in its effects as a result of the freedom of thought and expression brought about in the country by the joyous revolution.

In this study, Filibeli's articles titled “'Feminism' in the Face of Religion, Wisdom, and Science, or the Feminist Movement Which Is the Cause of Women's Misery,” which he penned in the newspaper Hikmet in 1910 and which continued for five issues, and his article titled “Islam and Women: Past, Present, and Future,” which was serialized in two issues that same year, have been brought together within a thematic integrity. Filibeli expresses the method he will follow in his articles with these sentences:
“The time is by no means favorable for opposing feminism, for not only is the feminist movement advancing with giant strides, but certain superficial successes give the impression that this movement is legitimate. We will not proceed against this outward appearance; we will not directly attack feminism. We will only examine this movement from the point of view of 'science.' But it is likely that this will destroy the feminist movement at its root...”