 It also influenced Tanzimat literature directly when the manuscript was printed in 1867 and became a very popular book of the time.His work is re-discovered by Turkey's reading public rather recently and is increasingly admitted as a classic.Ali Aziz Efendi also wrote further and shorter works of prose, which present as complementary extensions to Muhayyelât, as well as some poetry, and kept a correspondence with a number of notable figures of his time, both Ottoman and Western.