Kâtip Çelebi
Ottoman bibliographer, historian and geographer
- Lived
- 1609–1657
- Country
- Ottoman Empire
Updated September 2026
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About Kâtip Çelebi
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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Sources: book lists and dates from Wikidata and Open Library, ratings from Open Library readers, free texts from Project Gutenberg. Last updated September 2026.