Title in Arabic or Hebrew
- مواد مختلفة عن الجغرافيا التركية العثمانية
Introduction
- In particular, this sub-sub-sub-series preserves various documents and reproductions of manuscripts studied by Kahle, such as Ms Oxford, Bodleian, “Pocock 15”, that preserves’s Ḥāğğī Muḥammad Raʼīs Darayā’s «Risālat Tuḥfat al-Asrār fī ṭarīq al-biḥār», Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā Ṯaʻlab’s «Kitāb Iḫtiyār Faṣīḥ al-kalām», Kātib Čelebī’s «Jihān-nāma» (“Mirror of the World”), a geographical work that makes the first use, in Turkey, of European atlases and other sources.