A Return to Little Things: Stories on Motherhood and Mistakes

A Return to Little Things includes three nonfiction pieces that revolve around the mistakes made by mothers and daughters. The collection investigates the idea that our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made. The essays directly address three specific situations that touch on the themes of motherhood, choices, and the human inclination to recall them with bitterness, and offer proof that time often allows us to move forward to forgiveness. Using humor and acceptance, the narrator is led through a labyrinth of emotions to come to peace with these choices. The stories serve as reminders that there are no mistakes, only lessons, and we must seek to understand them to live happy lives. This manuscript is a work in progress.

The truth about snake stories / by Karl P. Schmidt, Asst. Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians.

no.10(1929)

Tevârîh-i Âl-i Osman : manuscript, undated

Popular history that starts with stories of the prophets (ff. 5r-17v) the offers anecdotes from the life of Prophet Muḥammad (ff. 17v-20v) and the four rightly guided caliphs and narrates history of Islamic dynasties (ff. 20v-35v). History of Ottoman family starts with Ertuġrıl and ends with at Süleymān Qānūnī (ff. 35v-60v). Enumerates sultan's campaigns, charitable foundations they established, and noteworthy contemporary scholars and religious personalities.

Writings on Islamic divination : manuscript, [ca. 1592]

Title supplied by cataloger.

[ Islamic hymns] : manuscript, undated

Title supplied by cataloger

[ Māāṟajil nabẖûvat] : manuscript, 1900?

Story of Prophet Abraham translated from a Persian text (possibly Muʻīn ad-Dīn Farāhi's "Maʻārij an-nubūwwah fī madārij al-futuwwah"), story of Prophet Zakariya from a text entitled Māālamil tanzīl (possibly Abū Muḥammad Ḥusain bin Masʻūd Baǵavī's "Maʻālim at-tanzīl") and two stories from the Sakhāvat nāma (possibly Sakhāvat nāma-i Ḥaẓrat ʻĀlī, the popular versified account of the miracles attributed to Ḥaẓrat ʻAlī).