Antiquarian & Rare Books
[Ibn Khafāja], Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm Ibn Khafāja al-Andalusī
Dīwān
Printed in Arabic
Cairo: al-Maṭbaʿa al-khāṣṣa bi-jamʿīyat al-maʿārif, ghāyat Rabīʿ al-Awwal 1286 h., 135pp., Contemporary binding.
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Aisha ʿIṣmat bint Ismāʿīl Pasha Taymūr
Dīwān Ḥilyat al-ṭirāz
Printed in Arabic
Cairo: al-Matbaʿa al-ʿāmira al-sharīfa, 1303 h., 72pp.
Women's literature and Egyptian nationalism,
cf. the publication of: Mervat F. Hatem, Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, pp. 151-194 [chapter Hilyat al-Tiraz, Hybridity, the Intersection of the Old and the New, and Private and Public Struggles] (according to article published in 1892).
Contemporary binding. Book block and binding damaged. Of interest for research on literature and history in the 19th century.
GAL II 475, S II 7
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ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad Al-Shabrāwī
Dīwān
Printed in Arabic
Cairo al-Maṭbaʿa al-Kāstalīya 1293 h., 88pp.
Loose contemporary binding
Author from the mid-18th century.
Khaled Rouayheb, Before Homosexuality in the Arab World (1500-1800), refers to the author several times.
GAL II 281, S II 288, 390
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[al-Zawzanī], Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Zawzanī
Sharḥ al-muʿallaqāt al-sabʿa
Printed in Arabic
[Cairo ?]: Maṭbaʿa al-ḥajar al-bāhira, Rabī al-āḫar 1277 h., 187pp.
Contemporary Binding, lithographic printing.
On page 1 recto, under the title, is a short biography of the author. According to the colophon commissioned by (muḥibb intishār al-ʿulūm al-nāfiʿa li-jamīʿ al-ʿibād) al-Ḥāfiẓ Efendi ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.
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[al-Fārābī], Abū Naṣr ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammd ibn Ūzlaq ibn Tarkhān al-Fārābī
Kitāb taḥṣīl al-saʿāda
Printed in Arabic
Hyderabad: Maṭbaʿa Majlis al-Maʿārif al-ʿUthmānīya 1345 [1926], 47 pp., early 20th c.
Edition of an al-Fārābī text.
Cover page damaged.
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Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-Sayyid Muḥammad Mahdī al-Ṣayyādī al-Rifāʿī al-Ḥusaynī [al-shahīr bi-] al-Rawās
Dīwān mishkāt al-yāqīn wa-muḥabbat al-muttaqiyīn
Printed in Arabic
Cairo: al-Maṭbaʿa al-ʿUmūmīya 1315 h. 402 pp.
Dīwān of a Rifāʿīya sheikh, eponym of a sub-order of the Rifāʿīya. Born in Basra 1805.
Worm wholes on several pages, including cover.
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[Al-Maʿarrī], Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī al-Tanūḥī
Dīwān Ḥilyat al-ṭirāz
Printed in Arabic
Mumbai: al-Maṭbaʿa al-Ḥusaynīya, Ghurra Shawwāl 1303 h. 2nd printing, Lithographic print, 348pp.
Copied by Mirzā Ḥusayn al-Bahāʾī al-Shīrāzī.
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Ibn Hishām, Jamāl al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf Ibn Hishām al-Anṣārī – Second author: Ḥamalāwī, Aḥmad,
Awḍaḥ al-masālik ilā alfīyat Ibn Mālik fī ʿilm al-ʿarabīy / Second book: Kitāb shidhā al-ḥarf fī fann al-ṣarf
Printed in Arabic
Cairo: Maṭbaʿa al-taqaddum al-ʿilmīya 1332 h. 192pp. (Second Edition.)
2nd book: Cairo: al-Maṭbaʿa al-Amīrīya, 1329 h., 152pp.
192pp.& 152pp.
Contemporary binding.
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Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh b. Muslim Qutayba al-Dīnawarī
Kitab Adab al-kātib
Printed in Arabic
Cairo: Maṭbaʿa al-Vaṭan al-Bahīya, Muḥarrem 1300, 229pp
Cover page missing.
A philological manual for use by secretaries by Ibn Qutayba (d. 899).
Cf. Zürich UAOI BC IV a 10
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Eliah Mizrahi
Teshuvot u-Sheilot (Questions and Answers or Responsa)
Early example of Hebrew printing from Istanbul/Constantinople,
Solomon ben Isaac Jabez, 1560.
[8], 318, [6] pp.,
Modern morocco-backed boards,
28.5 x 19.5 cm.
Questions, answers and fatwas by our wise and revered Rabbi Eliya Mizrahi on the rules discussed by rabbis in religious academies (yeshivas) in this country, Spain, France and Germany. Teshuvot u-Sheilot was printed under the editorship of Solomon Kabuli, the son of our learned Rabbi Menahem Kabuli, in the printing house of Solomon ben Isaac Jabez, the son of our Rabbi Yitsak Jabez, during the reign of our Gebieder (Efendi) Sultan Suleyman in the capital Constantiniyye. May the Lord strengthen and glorify his throne. This bo...
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AHMED CEVDET PAŞA
Vekâyi-i Devlet-i Alîye (Events in the Sublime State / the Ottoman Empire)
Printed in Ottoman Turkish
Istanbul: Matbaa-i Osmaniye, 1309 [1892]
ÖZEGE 19772
12 Vol. I: 6, [2], 381 p., II: 6, 391 p., III: 6, 388 p., IV: 4, 365 p., V: 4, 370 p, 1 Illustration, VI: 7, 412 p., VII: 7, 367 p., VIII: 362 p., IX: 320 p., X: 278, 7 p., XI: 9, 275 p., XII: 8, 286 p.
Half-leather bound, 26 x 17 cm.
Ahmed Cevdet Pascha (* 1822 in Lowetsch; † 1895 in Istanbul)Ottoman statesman; historian and lawyer. His life’s work includes the participation on various law codifications (known as the Mecelle) and the creation of the “Grammar Book of the Ottoman Language” which he wrote together with Mehmed Fuad Pascha. Between 1854 and 1884 he published 12 volumes of Tarih-i Cevdet (‚Chronicle of Cevdet‘; originally Vekâyi-i Devlet-i Alîye‘) which was a continuation of Hammer-Purgstalls „Geschichte des osmanischen Reiches“. In February 1...
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AHMED VASIF
Mehâsinü’l-Âsâr ve Hakaikü’l-Ahbâr (The Charms and Truths of Relics and Annals)
Printed in Ottoman Turkish
Cairo: Bulaq, 1246 [1830] ÖZEGE 225192
2 Volums in 1 Vol., I: 14, 210 p.; II: 7, 190 pp. (The first 2 folios of the index of vol. 1 are damaged and some text is missing. A photocopy with the full text has been inserted)
Half-leather bound, 28 x 18 cm.
“The Chronicler Ahmed Vâsıf on Agency, Causality, and a Reformist Philosophy of History”18th century Ottoman court chronicles are rarely studied as products of active, inquisitive minds. Most often they are seen as factual records without larger aims or messages. Such an approach, it should be s aid, obscures the chronicler's role in bringing his own sense and form to history. This paper will explore some ways in which one prominent Ottoman historian came to terms with the past, above all the strange and inexplicable. A...
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GİRİDÎ MUSTAFA NAİMA
Ravzatü'l-hüseyin fî Hûlâsat-ı Ahbâri'l-hafikayn(Garden of Elegance Containing Extracts of on the Orient and the Occident)
Printed in Ottoman Turkish
Istanbul: Matbaa-i Âmire 1259 [1843]
ÖZEGE 150876
3 Vols. + appendix about “Edirne Incident” 15, 462 + 15, 451 + 10, 460 + 6, 10, 465 + 6, 452 + 8, 442 + 58 p.
Half leather bound, 21.5 x 14 cm.
NAIMÅ (1655-1716). Historian. His real name was Mustafa Naim. Bom in Aleppo, he went to Istanbul at an early age, entered the bureaucracy, and rose to the position of secretary of the Imperial Council. In 1700 the grand vizier Amucazade Hiiseyin Pasha appointed him curt historian. After 1704 Naimå served as the director of the Registry of Landed Property (Defter Emini) and chief accomtant (Ba Muhasebeci 1713), and finally director of Land Registration for the Morea (1715), where he died (Patras, Greece). Naima became celebra...
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FERAİZCİZÂDE MEHMED SAİD
Tarih-i Gülşen-i Maarif
Printed in Ottoman Turkish
Istanbul: Matbaa-i Âmire 1252 [1836]
Not in ÖZEGE but AEKMK - BDK
2 Volumes. 8, 1-848 + 6, 849-1693 p.
Half leather bound, 22.5 x 15,5 cm.
History of the Ottoman Empire from the beginning to the Treaty of Karlowitz, signed on 26 January 1699 in Sremski Karlovci, in modern-day Serbia, concluding the Great Turkish War of 1683–1697 in which the Ottoman Empire had been defeated at the Battle of Zenta by the Holy League. It marks the end of Ottoman control in much of Central Europe, with their first major territorial losses after centuries of expansion, and established the Habsburg Monarchy as the dominant power in the region.Feraizcizâde Mehmed Said, died 1836 in B...
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RAMAZANZÂDE NİŞANCI MEHMED PAŞA
Tarih-i Nişancı Mehmed Paşa (History of Nişancı Mehmed Paşa)
Printed in Ottoman Turkish
Istanbul: Tab'hane-i Âmire, 1279 [1863]
ÖZEGE 198803
348 pp., cloth spine, leather covers, 18 x 13 cm.
The historical work, titled Tarih-i Ni ancı Mehmed Pa a, but originally titled Siyer-i Enbiya-i izam ve ahval-i hulefa-i kiram ve menakib-i selatin-i Osman, was written at the instigation of Sultan Suleyman and is still one of them today most popular most used historical manuals of the Ottomans. After a very short about one Quarter of the whole-filling treatment of world history (patriarchs, Muslim dynasties, etc.) is presented in more detail the Ottoman imperial history from Osman up to Suleyman, and indeed until the year 9...
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SADRAZAM İBRAHİM HAKKI PAŞA
Tarih-i Umûmî (General History)
Printed in Ottoman Turkish
Istanbul: Kasbar Matbaası, 1305 - 1306 [1888 – 1889]
3 Volumes in 1 Vol.
357 + 3, 384 + 392 p.
Half leather bound, 19.5 x 13 cm.
Ibrahim Hakki Pasha lived between the years 1863 and 1918. He was a scientist who lectured in the schools such as The Faculty of Political Sciences and The Faculty of Laws. He served as a legal advisor to the Ottoman Government and during this mission, he took charge in a lot of commissions dealing with political, judicial and financial issues. Besides, he served as an ambassador at Rome and Berlin after he ran The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Education. In 1910, he was appointed as Grand Vizier and during his office, he...
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MEHMED ŞEMSEDDİN [GÜNALTAY]
Mufassal Türk Tarihi (1. Kitab) (Turkish History - 1st Book)
Printed in Ottoman Turkish
Istanbul: Âmire Matbaası, Maarif Vekâleti Ne riyatı, 1341 [1923]
160 pp., 6 double pages, 2 folded maps (41x44 cm.)
ÖZEGE 14012
Full leather bound, guilded ornamental covers and guilded edges, 23 x 16.5 cm.
Mehmed emseddin Günaltay (1663-1961) was historian and politician. He was the the 8th prime minister in the Republic of Turkey in 1949-1950....
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SUBHİ PAŞA
Hakaikü'l-kelam fî Tarihi'l-İslâm (Truths about the History of Islam)
Printed in Ottoman Turkish
Istanbul: Matbaa-i Âmire, 1297 [1880]
ÖZEGE 66205
3+357 pp.
Full leather bound, guilded ornamental covers, 19.5 x 13.5 cm.
[Abdüllatif] Suphi Pasha (1818-1886) was a historian and education specialist. He was the founder of the Faculty of Fine Arts (Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi) and The Archological Museum (Müze-i Hümayun) in Istanbul.He planned in his work Hakaiku'l-Kelam fi Tarihi'l- slam a general history of the Islam in many vulumes, but only the first volume is published about the time from the beginning of Islam to the time of Caliph Ali....
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MEHMED TEVFİK PAŞA
Mekâtib-i Askeriye-i âhâneye Mahsûs Tarih-i Osmanî (Ottoman History. For Military Schools)
Printed in Ottoman Turkish
Istanbul: Mekteb-i Fünûn-u Harbiye-i âhâne Matbaası, 1308 [1891]
ÖZEGE 12728
309 pp., paperback, 23 x 16 cm.
Me rutiyet era history textboks are importance reliable resources not only they reflect the understanding of the Me rutiyet by the state but also of the effects of these boks on generations who later founded the republic. Therefore making research about these textbooks have great importance to understand the matter. This work aims to introduce Fatihli Mehmet Tevfik Pasa who wrote a history course book wich was studied among all military schools of Me rutiyet era. Mehmet Tevfik Pasa’s history book must be considered different...
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VEHBİ MUZAFFER PAŞA
Memâlik-i Devlet-i Âliye-i Osmaniye Co rafya-yı Sevkü'l-cey isi(History and Geography of the Ottoman Empire)
Printed in Ottoman Turkish
Istanbul 1302 [1885] (?)
ÖZEGE 25207
218 pp + 186 pp manuscript
A rare book about the History and Geography of the Ottoman Empire.The first 218 pages are printed, the following 186 pages are a manuscript....
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Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Buchārī
Sahīh al-Buchārī
Printed in Arabic
Istanbul: Matbaa-i Amire 1315 H. [1897]
8 vols. bound in 4 vols. 228, 260, 3235, 270, 242, 253, 240, 219 pp.
24.5 x 18 cm, Ottoman Style full leather bound with flip
Sahīh al-Buchārī is the common name of a collection of hadiths that goes back to the Islamic scholar Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Buchārī (d. 870). The correct title of the work is al-Jāmiʿ as-sahīh / al-Ǧāmiʿ aṣ-ṣaḥīḥ /'The Comprehensive Healthy'. The work ranks first among the canonical six hadith collections and is held in the highest esteem in Sunni Islam to this day. In terms of its authority and sanctity, it stands here directly behind the Qur'an. The first publication of Bukhārī’s al-Jāmi‘ al-sahīh in the ...
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Ibrahim Hakki Erzurumi 1115-1194 H. [1703-80]
Ibrahim Hakki Erzurumi 1115-1194 H. [1703-80]
Printed in Ottoman Turkish
Istanbul 1310 H. [1893] Âmire Matbaası, Sahafiye-i Osmanîye
16 + 564 p., half leather binding
32.5 x 24 cm
ÖZEGE 12259
The famous scientific encyclopedia, published more than half a century after the death of its author, the Turkish Sufi philosopher Ibrahim Hakki Erzurumi (1703-80). The "Marifetname", or "Book of Gnosis", completed in 1756, is a compilation of astronomical, astrological, mathematical, anatomical, psychological, philosophical as well as mystical religious texts. The work is famous for containing the first treatment of post-Copernican astronomy by a Muslim scholar. Among the astronomical and geographica...
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Yazıcızâde Mehmed
Kitâb-ı Muhammediye fî Kemâlâti'l-Ahmediye
Printed in Ottoman Turkish
Istanbul 1298 H / 1881 CE, Hocazâde Merhum Rıza Efendi'nin Matbaası
7, 4, 478 pages, richly illustrated
28 x 20 cm, red linen cover with flap
Özege 10955
A widely popular devotional work on the Prophet Muhammad, first written in Arabic in 1449 by the Ottoman Sufi poet Yazicioglu Mehmet (d. 1491) and translated into Ottoman Turkish by his younger brother Ahmed Bican. Mehmet, a native of the Gallipoli peninsula, was a follower of Haci Bayram-i Veli (1352-1430) and was influenced by the writings of Andalusian mystic Ibn 'Arabi. The earliest printed edition appeared in 1842 at Istanbul's Military Press.
Comprising some 9,000 couplets, the "Muhammadiyah" is on...
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Yazıcızâde Mehmed
Kitâb-ı Muhammediye fî Kemâlâti'l-Ahmediye
Printed in Ottoman Turkish
Istanbul 1306 H. / 1889 CE, Matbaa-i Osmaniye 4, 7, 478 pages, richly illustrated 28 x 20 cm, blue linen cover
Özege 10955
A widely popular devotional work on the Prophet Muhammad, first written in Arabic in 1449 by the Ottoman Sufi poet Yazicioglu Mehmet (d. 1491) and translated into Ottoman Turkish by his younger brother Ahmed Bican. Mehmet, a native of the Gallipoli peninsula, was a follower of Haci Bayram-i Veli (1352-1430) and was influenced by the writings of Andalusian mystic Ibn 'Arabi. The earliest printed edition appeared in 1842 at Istanbul's Military Press.
Comprising some 9,000 couplets, the "Muhammadiyah" is on...
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Yazıcızâde Mehmed
Kitâb-ı Muhammediye fî Kemâlâti'l-Ahmediye
Printed in Ottoman Turkish
Istanbul 1273 H / 1856 CE, Tab'hane-i Âmire Taş Destgâhı
6, 4, 447 pages, opening page with lithographic illustration 28 x 20 cm, red leather cover with flap
Özege 10955
A widely popular devotional work on the Prophet Muhammad, first written in Arabic in 1449 by the Ottoman Sufi poet Yazicioglu Mehmet (d. 1491) and translated into Ottoman Turkish by his younger brother Ahmed Bican. Mehmet, a native of the Gallipoli peninsula, was a follower of Haci Bayram-i Veli (1352-1430) and was influenced by the writings of Andalusian mystic Ibn 'Arabi. The earliest printed edition appeared in 1842 at Istanbul's Military Press.
Comprising some 9,000 couplets, the "Muhammadiyah" is on...
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