Villes

New English Original bdg. HC. Oblong small 4to. (17 x 28 cm). In English and Turkish. 88 p., b/w ills. (Old Bursa engravings). Through the eyes Lâmiî 16th century Bursa guide.= Lâmiî'nin kaleminden 16. yüzyil Bursa gezi rehberi. Translated by Tuba Durmus. Content: Eulogy for Bursa city centre.; Eulogy for the Skylike Uludag (The Great Mountain).; Eulogy for the skirts of the mountain.; Valleys of Uludag (The Great Mountain).; Eulogy for the site of Tekfur (Seigneur), Elma Çukuru (The Apple Pit), Findik Çukuru (The Hazelnut Pit), Kestane Çukuru (The Chestnut Pit) and others.; Eulogy for the site of Molla and the site of Sari.; The adventure of Pinarbasi spring that flows by the castle.; Gökdere Valley.; Kaplikaya Valley.; Doglu Baba Plateau.; The Plateau of the Sultan.; Eulogy for the Plateau of Bursa.; The site of Abdal Murad.; The site of Ab-i Hayat.; Çamlica Ayazma.; Eulogy for the Kirkpinar (Forty-springs) arena situated on the skirts of the Glorious Uludag.; The site of Musa Baba.; Depiction of the castle that ascends to the sky.; The cistern zone.; Sultan's palace.; Great tombs of the Ottomans.; Eulogy for the Grand Tomb of honorable Murad the Second and his sons (Sehzades).; Eulogy for the Bursa bazaars.; Eulogy for the peerless Ulu Mosque (The Great Mosque).; Eulogy for the heavenly pool of Ulu Mosque (The Great Mosque).; Eulogy for the heavenly ornamentations of Ulu Cami (The Great Mosque) made by Nakkas (Muralist) Musa.; Eulogy for the Kutlu Emir Sultan Mosque and its precincts.; Eulogy for the beautiful pool and the Holy Water that resembles to Zemzem here.; Eulogy for the tomb of Sayyid Kutlu Buhari.; Eulogy for the tomb of his holiness Sheikh Abdullatif El-Kudsi and for the Holy Tombs of other erenler (saints) around it.; Eulogy for the heavenly dervish lodge situated on Sheikh Taceddin Mountain.; Spas of Bursa.; Sultan Osman - The father of padisahs and the conqueror of the religion.; The tomb of Orhan Gazi.; Eulogy for Sultan Murad -Son of Orhan- known for his name Ghazi Hüdavendigâr.; Eulogy for Yildirim Bayezid (Bayezid the Lightning) -Son of Orhan-, The son of Sultan Murad.; The period of Çelebi Mehmed, The son of Yildirim Khan.; The sultanate of Musa Çelebi.; Emîr Süleyman, The son of Yildirim Khan.; Assemblies of the madrassa experts.; Those that with their beautiful collared-dove voices recite Quran in Ulu Mosque (The Great Mosque).; Beautiful recitation by sweet-voiced muezzins. Lamii Çelebi was a Naqshbandi Turkish divan poet who lived in 15th-16th century in Ottoman Bursa.