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Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In German. 78 p. Intuitionen des Herzens. Aus dem osmanischen Türkisch nach Vorlage zweier sich erganzender Handschriften ins Deutsche übertragen von H. Achmed Schmiede. Deutsche Übersetzung der zitierten Koranverse aus 'Der Koran', übers. v.Max Henning Philipp, Reclam jun. Stuttgart 1960. [= Varidat-i Aziz]. Preface by Annemarie Schimmel. Giridi Aziz Efendi was an Ottoman ambassador and an Ottoman author of the late-18th century and he is notable for his novel "Muhayyelât" (Imaginations), a unique work of fiction blending personal and fantastic themes, well in the current of the traditional Ottoman prose, but also exhibiting influences from Western literature. He was born in Kandiye (Crete) as the son of Tahmisçi Mehmed Efendi, who was the defterdar of the Crete Eyalet, in 1749. The details on his life are rather sparse and scattered. He rose through the Ottoman hierarchy and was sent as ambassador to Prussia in 1796 and he died in Berlin in 1798. His burial marked also the opening of the first Turkish or Muslim cemetery in Berlin. He is also cited for a short sefâretnâme he wrote relating his introduction to his mission as the ambassador of the Ottoman Empire in Prussia. (Source: Wikipedia).