Kâtip Çelebi
Ottoman bibliographer, encyclopedist, historian, geographer, scientist, biographer, polymath. / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kâtip Çelebi[n 1] (كاتب جلبي), or Ḥājjī Khalīfa (حاجي خليفة)[n 2][5][6] (*1017 AH/1609 AD – d. 1068 AH/1657 AD); was a Turkish polymath and author of the 17th-century Ottoman Empire.[5] He compiled a vast universal bibliographic encyclopaedia of books and sciences, the Kaşf az-Zunūn, and wrote many treatises and essays. “A deliberate and impartial historian… of extensive learning”,[7] Franz Babinger hailed him "the greatest encyclopaedist among the Ottomans."
Kâtip Çelebi | |
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Personal | |
Born | Muṣṭafa ibn 'Abd Allāh[1] February 1609 |
Died | September 26, 1657(1657-09-26) (aged 48) Istanbul, Ottoman Empire |
Religion | Islam |
Nationality | Ottoman |
Era | Ottoman era |
Denomination | Sunni |
Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
Creed | Sunni Kalam - Ishraqi Philosophical Syncretism[2][3] |
Main interest(s) | History of Civilisation, geography, cartography, science, medicine, Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence), Kalam (Islamic theology), Philosophy (particularly Illuminationism), Tafsir,[4] Sufism |
Notable work(s) | Kaşf az-Zunūn ‘an 'asāmī ‘l-Kutub wa-l’fanūn (كشف الظنون عن أسامي الكتب والفنون) |
Known for | Ottoman universal (bibliographic-biographic-historical-geographic-scientific) encyclopedias. |
Other names | Haji Kalfa, Hacı Halife |
Occupation | Bureaucrat, Historian, Muslim Scholar |
Muslim leader | |
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Writing with equal facility in Alsina-i Thalātha—the three languages of Ottoman imperial administration, Arabic, Turkish and Persian – principally in Arabic and then in Turkish, his native tongue— he also collaborated on translations from French and Latin. The German orientalist Gustav Flügel published Kaşf az-Zunūn in the original Arabic with parallel Latin translation, entitled Lexicon Bibliographicum et Encyclopaedicum (7 vols.).[n 3]. The orientalist Barthélemy d'Herbelot produced a French edition of the Kaşf az-Zunūn principally with additional material, in the great compendium, Bibliothèque Orientale. [8]