Hi Dom,
What you wrote about 'abd of course should be true for Arabic, but in Ottoman Turkish I have seen it to be used very liberally, in poems and prose Ottomans used this word only by itself (oddity of the Ottomans of course
) But still seeing the whole picture might also help.
And after much squinting and keep looking at the script for long time, I started to see some hallucinations I think, but I read the first two words as well, but I am unable to give them proper meaning. But my wild guess is that this might be a reference to Baktashi Order.
