Katip Çelebi

(1609-1657)

Ottoman bibliographer, encyclopedist, historian, geographer, scientist, biographer, polymath.

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Muṣṭafa ibn 'Abd Allāh (مصطفى بن عبد الله), generally known as Kâtip Çelebi (كاتب جلبي, "Gentleman Scribe"; variants: Kātib Çelebi; Katib Tchélébi; ‘Abdallāh Kātib Jelebi; Chalabi; Muṣṭafa Ben Hājī Khalīfah; Hâcci Halfa (Turkish: Hacı Halife) (حاجي خليفة), Haji Khalifa, Hajji Khalifeh, Hazi Halife, Hadschi Chalfa, Khalfa and Kalfa), (*1017 AH/1609 AD – d. 1068 AH/1657 AD) was a celebrated Ottoman-Turkish polymath and a leading literary author of the 17th-century Ottoman Empire. He compiled bibliographic, geographic and historical encyclopaedias, in addition to writing many treatises and essays. Regarded a “a deliberate and impartial historian… of extensive learning”, Franz Babinger claimed him to be the greatest encyclopaedist among the Ottomans.