[RARE PERIODICALS / CAIRO] Mecmua-i Kemâl: Üç ayda bir nesrolunur risâle-i semâhedir. Juz 1 - Year 1. [SET]

ALI KEMAL, (1867-1922), Sanduk Al-Posta 33, Cairo, 1901. Original wrappers with a head title in qufic script. Slight chippings on the extremities of the cover. Overall a very good copy. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 16 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic script). 224 p.Extremely rare all published first and only issue of this Ottoman periodical published in Cairo by Kemal, one of the most colorful and controversial figures in Ottoman/Turkish history, while he was living in Egypt after receiving his Political Sciences diploma in 1899, until the overthrow of Sultan Abdulhamid II. The set includes only the first issue, and although it is planned to be published quarterly, the second issue has never been published. This rare periodical contains articles written by the author himself titled "Oriental issue in the eighteenth century", "philosophy of history", "our poet, poets", "to a Bedouin's daughter", "Ottoman sultans we can't understand", "a short history: Excitement in Russia", "Travel me