[MARY OF ISLAM / PERSIAN MEVLID / SHIA] Mevlid-i Serîf-i Fatımatü'z-Zehrâ. Translated into Ottoman Turkish from Persian Ali b. Haci Esad

HACI MUHAMMED ES'AD., N.p., Istanbul, [AH 1327] = 1911. Original wrappers. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 13 p. Lithographed. First Ottoman edition of this litho book describing the life of Hazrat Fatma in verse and poetically. It includes 74 couplets in 13 pages, written "fâilâtün fâilâtün fâilün" rhythm and translated by the son of the author named Ali b. Haci Esad. Fatimah al-Zahra bint Muhammad (605-632) was born to the Islamic prophet Muhammad and Khadijah. Sunni Muslims hold that Fatimah was the youngest of their daughters, whereas Shia Muslims maintain that Fatimah was the only biological daughter of the couple. Fatimah's husband was Ali, the fourth of the Rashidun Caliphs and the first Shia Imam. Fatimah's children include Hasan and Husayn, the second and third Shia Imams, respectively. Fatimah occupies a similar position in Islam that Mary, mother of Jesus, occupies in Christianity. She is often viewed as an ultimate archetype for