[MANUSCRIPT / THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC GUILDS] Kitab-i fütûvvetnâme [with] serh-i dua-yi On Iki Imam

N.A., n.d. [c. 1800 – Early 19th century]. Original full brown morocco with a miklep (flap). 12mo. (17 x 12 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). [128] p. Naskh script in black and red ink on polished paper, thirteen lines per page. Slight fluctuation on the title page which the blank verso is mounted to pastedown. Occasionally fading and stains on the margins; otherwise, a very good copy. A rare manuscript copy of the book of Futuwwa written anonymously in the early 19th century in the Ottoman Empire, probably Constantinople. This copy with the annotation of "The Prayer of Twelve Imams" on the last two pages, includes the “Futuwwa” concept of Islamic guilds of artisans and merchants with mythological and historical accounts of the tradition in previous centuries of Islamic geography. This important manuscript gives an invaluable insight into the composition, structure, and social behavior of the Medieval Islamic guilds that gathered tradesmen and craftsmen (from ta