A Finely Illuminated Ottoman Dala’il al-Khayrat Manuscript with Views of Mecca and Medina, c. 1785 New Ireland wartime destroyer commander and later

wartime destroyer commander and later Chief of Naval Operations

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In the United States it received the American Booksellers Association's National Book Award for favourite novel of 1938

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A Finely Illuminated Ottoman Dala’il al-Khayrat Manuscript with Views of Mecca and Medina, c. 1785 New Ireland wartime destroyer commander and laterLate 18th century, circa 1785. Illuminated Arabic manuscript on paper, 17 x 12 cm, in a contemporary Ottoman binding. A finely illuminated Ottoman copy of the Dalail al Khayrat, written by the calligrapher Halil Sidki, a pupil of the celebrated master Seyyid Suleyman, who served as a preacher at the Sokullu Mehmed Pasha Mosque during the early 19th century. Halil Sidki belonged to the Ottoman tradition of the Aklam Sitte, literally the Six Scripts or