[BEIRUT IMPRINTS / ANNOTATIONS TO ARABIC POETRY] Serh-i kaside yâiyye li-cenâb Ibn el-Fariz. [i.e., Annotation to the qasida and yaiyya by his honour Ibn El-Fariz]. Annotated by Mersin mutasarrifi Mehmed Nâzim

Annotated by NÂZIM, MEHMED (1849-1926) from IBN AL-FARID UMAR b. ALI SHARAF AL-DÎN AL-MISRÎ AL-SADÎ, (Mystic Arab poet), (1181-1234). Beyrut Cerîdesi Matbaasi, Beyrut [Beirut], AH 1312 = [1895]. Staple-stitched soft covers. Housed in a handmade box. Cr. 8vo. (20,5 x 13,5 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 46 p. Lack of front and rear cover, wear to spine, trimmed upper margins. Overall, a fair copy. Scarce first and only edition of this annotation to the Yaiyya qasidas of classical Arabic verse of the greatest mystic Arab poet Ibn Farid (1181-1234). It’s annotated by Mehmed Nâzim (1849-1926), written when he served as governor in Mersin. This rare pamphlet printed in an Ottoman Vilâyât printing house “Beyrut Cerîdesi Matbaasi”, which also published an Ottoman newspaper with the same name in the long run in Beyrut, Lebanon.  Ibn Farid was born in Cairo of Ayyubid Egypt to parents from Hama in Syria, lived for some time in Mecca, and died in Cairo. His poetry is