TITLE:
The Ladder of Access to Stallion Layers سلم الوصول إلى طبقات الفحول
Publication date 1657-09-26
Topics biography, biographies, biographer, Haji, Khaleefah, Khaleefa, Khalifah, Khalifa, Katip, Katib, Çelebi, Kashf, al, ul, il, Zanun, Zanoon, Zunun, Zunoon, Mustafa, Ibn, Bin, Abdullaah, Abdullah, Abd, Allaah, Allah, Ottoman, Empire, Ottomans, Turkey, Constantinople,

About Author:

Kâtip Çelebi[n 1] (كاتب جلبي), or Ḥājjī Khalīfa (حاجي خليفة) 1068 AH/1657 was the celebrated Ottoman-Turkish polymath and leading literary author of the 17th-century Ottoman Empire.He compiled a vast universal encyclopaedia, the famous 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 Persian – principally in Arabic and then in Turkish, his native tongue— he also collaborated on translations from French and Latin. The German orientalist Gustav Flügel published Kaşf az-Zunūn in the original Arabic with parallel Latin translation, entitled Lexicon Bibliographicum et Encyclopaedicum (7 vols.). The orientalist Barthélemy d'Herbelot produced a French edition of the Kaşf az-Zunūn principally with additional material, in the great compendium, Bibliothèque Orientale.