[THE FIRST MODERN OTTOMAN PSYCHIATRIST AGAINST SPIRITISM] سپرىتىزمه علىهنده: علوم مستوره مراقلىلرىنه / Spiritizma aleyhinde: Ulûm-i mestûre meraklilarina. [i.e. Against Spiritism]

[USMAN], MAZHAR OSMAN (1884-1951).

Matbaa-i Hayriye ve Sürekâsi, Istanbul, AR 1326 [= CE 1910].

Original greenish wrappers. Cr. 8vo (20 × 13.5 cm). Text in Ottoman Turkish (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 64 pp. Personal stamp of “Dr. Hayreddin” on the front cover; light foxing. Overall, a near-fine copy.

The very rare first edition of this significant early work, reflecting both the scientific consolidation of psychiatry in the late Ottoman period and a medical critique of contemporary spiritual and metaphysical movements. Written by Mazhar Osman, the pioneering physician who laid the foundations of modern psychiatry in Turkey, the work advances a series of arguments against the Spiritualism movement, which began to gain popularity in the Antebellum Ottoman Empire during the 1910s.

Mazhar Osman began his specialization in neuropsychiatry under Dr. Rasid Tahsin [Tugsavul] (1870-1936), and soon afterward travelled to Germany to further his medical training. There, he worked alongside leading figures of contemporary psychiatry and neurology, including Theodor Ziehen (1862-1950), Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926), and Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915). Shortly after returning from Germany, he authored this work and published it, "with a physician's sense of responsibility, taking into account the mental health of society, and with an aim that may today be regarded within the scope of preventive healthcare" (Kabalci).

Özege 18105., As of January 2026, OCLC shows two institutional copies in OCLC 1030932929, 1065321609 (A tract on spiritism and paranormal phenomena by a doctor of nervous conditions), held at the Orient-Institut, Istanbul, and the British Library, St. Pancras. No holdings are recorded in any North American library.