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YUSUF NABI EFENDI (D. 1712 AD): TUHFAT AL-HARAMAYN
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YUSUF NABI EFENDI (D. 1712 AD): TUHFAT AL-HARAMAYN

OTTOMAN PROVINCES, 18TH/19TH CENTURY

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YUSUF NABI EFENDI (D. 1712 AD): TUHFAT AL-HARAMAYN
OTTOMAN PROVINCES, 18TH/19TH CENTURY
An account of the author's piligrimage to Mecca and Medina, Persian manuscript on paper, 103ff., each folio with 17ll. of black naskh script verging on riq'a, occasional words picked out in red, phrases overlined in red, with catchwords, final folio possibly lacking, paginated, two seal impressions of Hasan Tahsin, in brown morocco binding with marbled paper doublures
Folio 8 ¼ x 5 ¼in. (21.1 x 13.5cm.)
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Yusuf Nabi was an Ottoman poet from Urfa. After travelling to Istanbul, he became favourite of the grandvizier of Sultan Mehmet IV, Kara Mustafa Pasha. He died, aged about 90, in 1712. Nabi wrote several historical works, including an account of the conquest of Kameniec in Podolia. The present work, titled Tuhfat al-Haramayn is an account of his pilgrimage to the holy places in 1678. It was composed in 1682. His most popular work is his Diwan however.

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