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Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
  • Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia
Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia

Ottoman 1914 History of Islam Book with many Maps Ali Reşad Seydi Mecca Kaaba Saudi Arabia

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Tarih-i İslâm – Haritalı ve Resimli (History of Islam – Illustrated and with Maps) – Ali Reşad & Ali Seydi, 1330 (c. 1914)

Description:

Tarih-i İslâm – Haritalı ve Resimli (History of Islam – Illustrated and with Maps) is an Ottoman Turkish history textbook prepared in accordance with the latest curriculum program accepted for the first grade of the Mekâtib-i Rüşdiye (middle schools). It was therefore intended for use within the formal Ottoman educational system and presents the history of Islam in a manner adapted to the educational level of its students. The work covers the beginnings of Islamic history, the life of the Prophet Muhammad (Siyer) and the period of the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs (Hulefâ-i Râşidîn), using a chronological and accessible narrative.

Ali Reşad Bey (1877–1929) was a highly productive Turkish historian, educator and author who lived through the final period of the Ottoman Empire and the early years of the Republic. Born in Lovech in 1877, he moved with his family to Istanbul as an infant following the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 and graduated from the prestigious Mekteb-i Mülkiye-i Şahane in 1897. Rather than pursuing an administrative career, he chose education and taught history at important institutions including Vefa, Kabataş and Galatasaray Sultanisi. He later held senior educational positions, including the directorship of the Istanbul Directorate of Education, the Darülmuallimîn-i Âliye, and a senior post within the Ottoman Ministry of Education. From 1915, he served as a professor of Medieval History at the Darülfünun and wrote numerous history textbooks for Ottoman schools. He died in Istanbul in 1929 at the age of 52.

Ali Reşad and Ali Seydi were two idealistic educators who worked to contribute to the modernization of the Ottoman educational system following the Second Constitutional Period. Their collaboration in preparing schoolbooks reflects the changing approach to education during the late Ottoman period, when greater emphasis was placed on organized curricula, accessible explanations and the use of visual teaching materials. In this context, Tarih-i İslâm offers an interesting example of how religious and historical subjects were presented within the evolving educational framework of the period.

The book is richly illustrated and contains numerous maps, including visual material relating to the sacred places of Islam such as Mecca, Medina and the Kaaba. Maps showing the historical spread of Islam provide an additional geographical dimension to the narrative, helping students understand the expansion of Islamic civilization across different regions. The combination of illustrations, maps and chronological historical instruction makes the book particularly valuable as an example of Ottoman visual educational publishing.

Published in 1330 (approximately 1914), the work was issued by Kanaat Kütüphanesi, owned by İlyas, on Babıali Caddesi in Istanbul, and printed at Dersaadet Kanaat Matbaası. The volume also contains a separately authored work, Amelî İlmihal (Practical Religious Manual) by Halim Sabit, published in 1329 (approximately 1913). This second book is a basic instructional work on Islamic religion and jurisprudence (fiqh). The two works were brought together and subsequently bound by an individual, making the present volume a composite binding rather than an originally issued single-book publication.

Key Features:

• Title: Tarih-i İslâm – Haritalı ve Resimli (History of Islam – Illustrated and with Maps)

• Authors: Ali Reşad & Ali Seydi

• Intended Audience: Students of the First Grade of the Mekâtib-i Rüşdiye (Ottoman middle schools)

• Educational Status: Prepared in accordance with the latest curriculum program accepted for the first grade of the Mekâtib-i Rüşdiye

• Subject: Islamic history

• Historical Coverage: The beginnings of Islamic history, the life of the Prophet Muhammad (Siyer) and the period of the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs (Hulefâ-i Râşidîn)

• Illustrations: Numerous historical and religious illustrations

• Sacred Geography: Includes visual material relating to Mecca, Medina and the Kaaba

• Maps: Maps illustrating the historical spread of Islam, together with other geographical and historical maps

• Publication Year: 1330 (approximately 1914)

• Place of Publication: Istanbul

• Publisher: Kanaat Kütüphanesi, owned by İlyas, Babıali Caddesi

• Printer: Dersaadet Kanaat Matbaası

• Language: Ottoman Turkish

• Educational Significance: An Ottoman school textbook prepared for the formal middle-school curriculum and designed to introduce students to Islamic history through accessible historical narration, illustrations and maps

• Author Significance: Ali Reşad was a prominent late Ottoman historian and educator, while Ali Seydi was his collaborator in the preparation of educational publications during the modernization of the Ottoman school system

• Historical Significance: An important example of how Islamic history and religious-historical education were presented within the changing educational framework of the late Ottoman Empire

• Additional Bound Work: Amelî İlmihal (Practical Religious Manual) by Halim Sabit, published in 1329 (approximately 1913)

• Additional Work Subject: Basic Islamic religious instruction and jurisprudence (fiqh)

• Binding: The two books were brought together and subsequently bound by an individual; the volume is a composite binding containing both works

• Collectible Significance: Particularly valuable for collectors and researchers of Ottoman Turkish books, Islamic history, religious education, Ottoman schoolbooks, historical cartography and late Ottoman publishing.

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