Building upon the earlier efforts of Veysî and Nâbî, the Ottoman Turkish scholar Nazmî-zâde Murtazâ (fl. ca. late-17th, early-18th century AD) wrote his Zeyl-i Siyer, which is an account of the early Islamic community led by the prophet Muhammad. The mid-late Ottoman empire was the leading Muslim power of its time, and Nazmî-zâde's work lends a window into Ottoman understanding of early Islamic history. The work is written in a high-register Ottoman Turkish prose, and contains verses in Arabic and Persian. The present book is Volume I (Cilt I), in which Dr. Mehmet Büküm provides a meticulous critical edition of the Zeyl-i Siyer (in Latin transcription), together with a host of pertinent scholarly information.

A facsimile of one of the three manuscripts used to make the critical edition is published in Volume II (Cilt II):

Nazmî-zâde'nin Zeyl-i Siyer-i Veysî ve Nâbî'si Cilt II: N Nüshasının Tıpkıbasımı