Literature & Poetry
New: ISLAMIC TEXTUAL TRADITIONS & HUMANITIES
Literature – Philosophy – Theology – Historiography
FROM THE LIBRARY OF PROFESSOR HANS-HINRICH BIESTERFELDT (University of Bochum)
❧ 213 titles in a total of 275 volumes.
❧ 40% in English, 38% in Arabic, 12% in German, as well as other languages.
❧ Books are in very good condition.
❧ Complete list of all titles available.
❧ NEW: Bibliographic data in Zotero allow output in all standard formats
❧ The collection is being sold in its entirety.
The focus of this part of Hans-Hinrich Biesterfeldt’s library is on Arabic literature and adab, the Greek-Arabic philosophical tradition, Islamic theology and the Islamic historiography: ARABIC LITERATURE AND ADAB (84 titles) is the largest subject. A few examples in this category are: Kitāb al-ʿIqd al-farīd (7 vols.), Nišwār al-muḥāḍara wa-aḫbār al-muḏākara (8 vols.). Al-Baṣāʾir wa-ḏ-ḏaḫāʾir by Tawḥīdī, Histoire de la littérature arabe des origines à la fin du XVe siècle de J.-C. by Blachère is complete 3 vols. Kitāb Sībaw...
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Seyyed Mir Hamza Nigârî, ( 1219 – 1313 H. / 1805 – 1896 AD)
The Complete Works
Manuscripts and Printed Parts in Ottoman Turkish.
Bound in one volume:
1. Dibace/preface, manuscript, 2 pp.
2. Silsila, manuscript, 1 p.
3. Divân-ı Seyyid Nigâri Be-Zeban-ı Türkî and Çaynâme, Istanbul 1302 [1886], Süleyman Efendi Matbaası 366 pp. (with handwritten additions of parts not printed)
4. Nigarnâme, manuscript, author’s copy, 187 pp.
5. Menâkıb-ı Seyyid Nigârî, manuscript, 10 pp.
Mir Hamza Nigari is the most famous mystic in Anatolia and Caucasia in the 19th century. Nigari was born in the town of Zengezur in the Caucasian region of Karaba and received his primary education there. While still young, he moved to Anatolia and joined the smail irvani sect in Amasya. Nigari, who taught mystical principles in Istanbul, Erzurum and Harput, died in Harput and is buried in Amasya. ad 2: Silsila in Sufism is the spiritual chain of a sheikh that connects him to the Prophet Muhammad through previous generations...
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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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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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EBUBEKİR RIFAT ELHAC
Münşeat ve divan-ı Rıfat Efendi
Cairo: Bulaq 1254 H [1838 AD]
183, 52, 25 p., 23x15 cm.
Contemporary Ottoman style quarter leather bound.
Boards are cloth. With decorative stamps.
Özege 14824
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ÖMER NEF'İ
Divan-ı nef'i
Istanbul: Ceride-i Havadis Matbaası 1269 H [1853 AD]
207, 38 p. 23x15 cm
Ottoman classical style ornamental title page and Contemporary Ottoman style quarter leather bound. Boards are cloth.
Özege 4202
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SEHER ABDAL
Nan-u Helva
No place, No date
27 p. 21,5x13,5 cm
Ottoman classical style ornamental title page.
Contemporary Ottoman style hard cover. Boards are marbled paper.
A perfect example of the combination of Ottoman caligraphy and printing techniques. The letters were designed by the Caligrapher Râcih Efendi and cut by famous Ohannes Muhendisyan....
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OSMAN VASIF ENDERUNÎ
Divân-ı Gülşen Efkâr-ı Vâsıf-ı Enderunî
Istanbul,1285 [1868]
168+144p.
Özege 4139
Very rare. A copy can be found in the Turkish Grand National Assembly Open Access System: https://acikerisim.tbmm.gov.tr/items/df6ec1ed-3ec8-45e9-94b2-f7b89cba9a2e...
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