[BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA] Tabsiratü’l-eskiya [i.e., The insights on the bandits]

[ABDI] (Bosnian clerk), (?-?)], Basîret Matbaasi, Istanbul, [AH 1289] = 1872. Original yellow wrappers. 16mo. (16 x 11 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 101 p. First edition of this exceedingly rare tractate on the Bosnian Revolt (1849-1851) including a first-hand and eyewitness account of the Bosnian Expedition by Omer Lutfi Pasha, written anonymously, attributed to the Bosnian clerk Abdi. HISTORICAL CONTEXT: With the declaration of the Tanzimat reforms in 1839, the Ottoman Empire began an irreversible process of renewal. This process did not evolve in the same way in all the provinces of the Empire. One of the provinces in which the application of these reforms encountered the greatest obstacles was Bosnia. The Tanzimat reforms could not be introduced in this province until 1849, in which year a decision was taken to this effect. This decree encountered the stiff opposition of Bosnian feudal landlords who believed that this meant the loss of their privileges.