Very Good Arabic Paperback. Contemporary marbled boards. Chipped on margins of cover papers. Added a paper to spine in its period. Slightly toned on paper. Otherwise a good copy. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14,5 cm). Bilingual in Ottoman script and Arabic. 78 p., ills. and tables. Lithograph. AH 1303 = AD 1886. First and Only Edition. Only one copy in OCLC: 463334715.; Özege 13820.; Not in Ihsanoglu -Sesen - Izgi. He was the son of Haci Ömer Agha. His family was called the Blind Halîloghuls. He did his education in various madrasahs and with famous scholars of Harput. He had his 'ijazat' by Ibrâhim Hulûsî Efendi. He worked as a teacher in Elazig Military Office for almost 30 years. Here he taught logic, religion, and Arabic philology. In addition to his profound knowledge of Arabic and Persian, he was also familiar with mathematics, science and literature. He also had the ability to determine the time by measuring the condition of the sun by using astrolabe. He made a special astrolabe. In addition he was a poet, also he was a calligrapher and he had written 25 qurans. (Türkedebiyatiisimlersözlügü). This book is the first science book printed in Mamuret al-Aziz Printing House which is written by Muallim Ibrahim Lebib Efendi from Harput includes account of 'Djem', 'Tarh', 'Taqsim', 'Zarp', 'Karrat djatwal [i.e. the multiplication table]', account marks, 'Qasrî adî', 'Qasrî âshârî', and 'Tanasub [i.e. proportioned]' as mathematical and calculus elements. Printed in Elazig vilayat. In this region where located this printing house, so Elaziz city in the Ottoman period was a city where was in addition to Turkish, Arabic was also widely spoken. (Müteferrika No: 46, Mamuretü'l-Aziz Matbaasi).
