Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Extremely rare and first and only edition of this Cairo imprint book that suggested a uniform Hegira calendar for all Muslim nations. It's work on chronology as well, including a fine guide to converting Hijri and Gregorian calendars. Ahmed Muhtar was born on 1 November 1839 to a Turkish family in Bursa in the Ottoman Empire and was educated in the Ottoman Military College in Istanbul. His father was merchant Halil Efendi. He eventually became professor and then governor of the school. In 1856, he served as an adjutant during the Crimean War. In 1862, he was a staff officer in the disastrous Montenegrin campaign. Between 1870 and 1871, he quelled rebellions in Yemen. He gained the titles of Pasha and Marshal and, in 1873, was made commander of the Second Army Corps, holding the position until 1876. During the 1875 uprisings in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he assumed control of the Turkish forces there. On the outbreak of the Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878, he was sent to take charge of operations in Erzurum. Although the Russians ultimately defeated the Ottomans in the war, Muhtar's victories against them in the eastern front won him the title Gazi ("The Victorious"). In 1879, Ahmed Muhtar Pasha was appointed the commander of the Ottoman Empire's frontier with Greece, before being sent in 1885 to serve as the Ottoman High Commissioner in Egypt. The rare bilingual first edition of work on chronology. It advocates a uniform solar Hejra year from all Muslim nations. The well-known diplomat and scholar Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, first High Commissioner of the Porte in Egypt. Contemporary cloth bdg. with Ottoman lettered gilt on spine. Covers are saved inside, foxing on the front cover and chippings on extremities. Otherwise a good copy. 4to. (28 x 20 cm). In Ottoman script and Arabic. 72 p., 45 tables on 79 p. Özege 8163.; TBTK 1886.; Sarkis 399 & 1950.; Not in GAL.; GOW 378.; Tahir III 300. First Edition.
