# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katip-celebi
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:05:17.207Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katip-celebi"
name: "Kâtip Çelebi"
slug: "katip-celebi"
description: "Kâtip Çelebi or Ḥājjī Khalīfa was a Turkish polymath and author of the 17th-century Ottoman Empire. 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”, Franz Babinger hailed him \"the greatest encyclopaedist among the Ottomans.\""
tagline: "Ottoman bibliographer, historian and geographer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Map_of_the_Indian_Ocean_and_the_China_Sea_was_engraved_in_1728_by_Ibrahim_M%C3%BCteferrika.jpg/330px-Map_of_the_Indian_Ocean_and_the_China_Sea_was_engraved_in_1728_by_Ibrahim_M%C3%BCteferrika.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1609"
deathDate: "1657-10-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.13
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.308
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f57f6a81-8e70-4a76-8962-8276127cb8f3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%8A_%D8%AE%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A9"
    title: "حاجي خليفة"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B7%D9%81%D9%89_%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%89_%D8%AE%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%87"
    title: "مصطفى حاجى خليفه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katib_%C3%87%C9%99l%C9%99bi"
    title: "Katib Çələbi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%84%D0%B0"
    title: "Хаджи Калфа"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA_%E0%A6%9A%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF"
    title: "কাতিপ চেলেবি"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katib_%C4%8Celebi"
    title: "Katib Čelebi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A2tip_%C3%87elebi"
    title: "Kâtip Çelebi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katib_%C3%87elebi"
    title: "Katib Çelebi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Κατίπ Τσελεμπή"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A2tip_%C3%87elebi"
    title: "Kâtip Çelebi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A2tip_%C3%87elebi"
    title: "Kâtip Çelebi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8_%DA%86%D9%84%D8%A8%DB%8C"
    title: "کاتب چلبی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A2tip_%C3%87elebi"
    title: "Kâtip Çelebi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katip_%C3%87elebi"
    title: "Katip Çelebi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A2tip_%C3%87elebi"
    title: "Kâtip Çelebi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haji_Khalifa"
    title: "Haji Khalifa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "キャーティプ・チェレビー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A5%E1%83%90%E1%83%97%E1%83%98%E1%83%A4_%E1%83%A9%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%98"
    title: "ქათიფ ჩელები"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B1_%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%B8_%D2%9A%D0%B0%D0%B6%D1%8B_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%B0"
    title: "Катиб Челеби Қажы Халифа"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B9%B4%ED%8B%B0%ED%94%84_%EC%B2%BC%EB%A0%88%EB%B9%84"
    title: "카티프 첼레비"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A2tip_%C3%87elebi"
    title: "Kâtip Çelebi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8_%DA%86%D9%84%D8%A8%DB%8C_%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AC%DB%8C_%D8%AE%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%81%DB%81"
    title: "کاتب چلبی حاجی خلیفہ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A1tibe_Chelebi"
    title: "Cátibe Chelebi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A2tip_%C3%87elebi"
    title: "Kâtip Çelebi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B1_%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%B8"
    title: "Кятиб Челеби"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q390123"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump