Kâtip Çelebi
Ottoman bibliographer, historian and geographer · Turkey · Academics · Lived 1609 to 1657 · aged 48
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Something wrong?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.
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1728 map of the Indian Ocean and the Chinese Sea by Ibrahim Müteferrika, one of a series that illustrated Katip Çelebi's Universal Geography, the first printed atlas in the Islamic world.![Map of Arabian Peninsula, Kitab-ı cihannüma [Istanbul, 1732] Typ 794.34.475 Houghton Library](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Houghton_Typ_794.34.475_-_K%C3%A2tip_%C3%87elebi%2C_Kitab-%C4%B1_cihann%C3%BCma.jpg/1280px-Houghton_Typ_794.34.475_-_K%C3%A2tip_%C3%87elebi%2C_Kitab-%C4%B1_cihann%C3%BCma.jpg)
Map of Arabian Peninsula, Kitab-ı cihannüma [Istanbul, 1732] Typ 794.34.475 Houghton Library![Map of Japan, Kitab-ı cihannüma [Istanbul, 1732] Cambridge University Library](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Map_of_Japan_appears_in_the_Cihannuma.jpg/1280px-Map_of_Japan_appears_in_the_Cihannuma.jpg)
Map of Japan, Kitab-ı cihannüma [Istanbul, 1732] Cambridge University LibraryAbout this person
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."
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