Unesco 2009 Year Kâtip Çelebi - Mustafa bin Abdullah - Hacı Halîfe - CAN AKIN

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Unesco 2009 Year Kâtip Çelebi - Mustafa bin Abdullah - Hacı Halîfe
Katip Çelebi, Mustafa bin Abdallah, Haji Khalifa or Kalfa, (1609, Istanbul - 1657 Istanbul) was an Ottoman scholar. Among his best-known works is the Kashf al-zunun'an asami al-kutub wa al-funun, ("The Removal of Doubt from the Names of Books and the Sciences"), a bibliographic encyclopedia, written in Arabic, which lists more than 14,500 books in alphabetic order.
The son of a soldier, he himself was a soldier for ten years until a heritage made him turn to a more contemplative life. He performed his Hajj in 1635. He became a government official (ikindji khalif) while continuing to write his encyclopedic contributions. The best known being the "Kashf al-zunnun", a bibliographical dictionary in the Arab language with over 14.500 entries in alphabetical order. This work served as basis for the "Bibliothéque Orientale" of Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville.
Among his other works: -"Fadhlakat al-tawarikh" (1639), a chronology up till 1639, of which the list of 1300 sources was lost from the unique manuscript. -"Takwim al-tawarikh", a chronology from Adam up till 1648, translated in Italy by Rinaldi Carlo as "Cronologia historica..." Venice 1697.
He also translated Latin texts in cooperation with a French convert to Islam known as shaykh Mehmed Iklāsī: -"Rawnak al-sultana", ="Historia rerum in Oriente gestarum" Francfurt 1587. -"Tariq-i-Firengi", ="Chronique de Jean Carrion" Paris 1548.
Also to be noted is his study and partial translation of the "Atlas Minor" by Gerardus Mercator and Jodocus Hondius.

كشف الظنون عن أسامي الكتب والفنون

L'Unesco a proclamé l'année 2009, "Année de Katip Çelebi" (ou Kalib-Tchélébi). La vie, les œuvres et les contributions au monde scientifique de Katip Çelebi seront présentées lors des activités qui se dérouleront dans différents pays. Deux œuvres composées par Katip Çelebi seront interprétées dans les concerts où les œuvres du 17ème siècle seront interprétées. Katip Çelebi qui vivait au 17ème siècle avait des œuvres dans plusieurs domaines allant des sciences religieuses aux mathématiques et à la géographie. Parmi les 21 œuvres de Katip Çelebi qui sont parvenues à ce jour, Tuhfat'al-Kibar Fi Esfari'al-Bihar qui donne des informations sur la marine et Djihân-numa qui est qualifié du plus ancien livre de géographie. Les œuvres et la vie de Katip Çelebi seront traduits dans plusieurs langues et des reproductions des cartes géographies seront effectuées. Lors des réunions de commémoration qui seront réalisées durant toute l'année dans différents pays, plusieurs cotés de Katip Çelebi seront présentées.

Katip Çelebi was a Turkish scholar. Among his chief works is the Keşfüz-zünûn an esâmil-kütüb vel-fünûn which documents some 15,000 books. The best known of his encyclopaedic contributions is the Keşfüz-zünûn, a bibliographical dictionary in the Arab language, with over 14,500 entries in alphabetical order. This work served as a basis for the "Bibliothèque Orientale" by Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville. He was also the author of many works in the fields of geography, history and economics.

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