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  • Qazwīnī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar, 1203 or 4-1276 or 7. Ḥikmat al-ʻayn. Tihrān : Anjuman-i Ās̲ār va Mafākhir-i Farhangī, 1384 [2005 or 2006].
  • Quṭb al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʻūd, 1236 or 7-1310 or 11. Sharḥ Ḥikmat al-ishrāq Suhrawardī.Tihrān : Muʼassasah-ʼi Muṭālaʻāt-i Islāmī, Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, Dānishgāh-i Makʹgīl, 2001.
  • Tabrīzī, Rajabʻalī, d. 1669 or 70. al-Aṣl al-aṣīl : uṣūl-i āṣifīyah. Tihrān : Anjuman-i Asār va Mufākhir-i Farhangī, 1386 [2007].
  • Turkah Iṣfahānī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, 1368 or 1369-1431 or 1432. Kitāb al-Manāhij fī al-manṭiq. Tihrān : Muʼassasah-ʼi Muṭālaʻāt-i Islāmī, Dānishgāh-i Tihrān ; Kuwālā Lāmpư̄r : Muʼassasah-ʼi Bayna al-Milalī-i Andīshah va Tamaddun-i Islāmī, 1376 [1997]
  • Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274. Maṣāriʻ al-muṣāriʻ. Tihrān : Intishārāt-i Muʼassasah-ʼi Muṭālaʻāt-i Islāmī-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, Dānishgāh-i Mīkgīl, bā hamkārī-i Markaz-i Bayn al-Milalī-i Guftugū-yi Tamaddunhā, 1383 [2004 or 2005]
  • Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274. Talkhīṣ al-Muḥaṣṣal : bi-inz̤imām-i rasāʼil va favāʼid kalamī. Tihrān : Intishārāt-i Muʼassasah-ʼi Muṭālaʻāt-i Islāmī, Dānishgāh-i Mīkgīl, Shuʻbah-ʼi Tihrān, bā hamkārī-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān,   1980.

Ottoman Postcards

A recent ‘discovery’ in the Islamic collection in Rare Books and Special Collections, is a set of Ottoman-French postcards named Medjmouaï teçavir (Collection de costumes). There are 22 postcards with each image portraying a different cultural aspect of Ottoman customs and dress attire. Unfortunately, there is no date on the cards themselves but we can assume these date from the late 19th or early 20th centuries.Ottoman PC3For further reading on Ottoman costumes, have a look at:

Salman, Fikri. 2012. Türk kumaş sanatı. Erzurum: Atatürk Üniversitesi, Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi.

Fenerci Mehmed. 1986. Osmanlı kıyafetleri: Fenerci Mehmed albümü = Ottoman costume book. İstanbul: Vehbi Koç Vakfı.

Hamilton, Alastair. 2001. Arab culture and Ottoman magnificence in Antwerp’s Golden Age. London: Arcadian Library.

Ottoman PC1Sevin, Nureddin. 1973. On üç asırlık Türk kıyâfet târihine bir bakış. [İstanbul]: Devlet Kitapları.

Yılmaz, Hale. 2013. Becoming Turkish nationalist reforms and cultural negotiations in early republican Turkey, 1923-1945. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press.

As well as: http://www.midafternoonmap.com/2014/02/ottoman-hats.html

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