Kâtip Çelebi
id:
k-tip-elebi-180-12494774
title:
Kâtip Çelebi
text:
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." Writing with equal facility in Alsina-i Thalātha—the three languages of Ottoman imperial administration, Arabic, Turkish and
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Ottoman bibliographer, encyclopedist, historian, geographer, scientist, biographer, polymath.
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A2tip_%C3%87elebi
date created:
2006-01-28T11:23:19Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T15:11:06Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q390123","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q390123"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Map_of_the_Indian_Ocean_and_the_China_Sea_was_engraved_in_1728_by_Ibrahim_M%C3%BCteferrika.jpg","width":2552,"height":1914}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16