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Kâtip Çelebi, or Haji Khalifa, is celebrated in the countries of the Islamic East as the author of the Kashf al-Zunun 'an Asami al-Kutub wa al-Funun (The Removal of Doubt from the Names of Books and the Arts). This bibliographic encyclopedia of books and sciences, written in Arabic, was based on the Miftāḥ al-Saʿāda wa-miṣbāḥ al-Siyādah by the c.16th Ottoman historian, Taşköprüzade. However the Kaşf substantially enlarges it, cataloging titles of approximately 15,000 books; 9,500 names of authors; and 300 sciences and arts. The work is seen as a significant example of and contribution to Ottoman historiography.

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  • كشف الظنون عن أسامي الكتب والفنون هو مسرد ضخم للكتب العربية والفارسية والتركية، وضعه الحاجي خليفة، وهو من علماء القرن الحادي عشر الهجري (السابع عشر الميلادي). ضمّ الكتاب أسماء آلاف الكتب إضافةً لأسماء مصنفيها، على ذلك يعتبر من المراجع الرئيسة للباحثين عن آثار المؤلفين في التراث الإسلامي. (ar)
  • Kâtip Çelebi, or Haji Khalifa, is celebrated in the countries of the Islamic East as the author of the Kashf al-Zunun 'an Asami al-Kutub wa al-Funun (The Removal of Doubt from the Names of Books and the Arts). This bibliographic encyclopedia of books and sciences, written in Arabic, was based on the Miftāḥ al-Saʿāda wa-miṣbāḥ al-Siyādah by the c.16th Ottoman historian, Taşköprüzade. However the Kaşf substantially enlarges it, cataloging titles of approximately 15,000 books; 9,500 names of authors; and 300 sciences and arts. The work is seen as a significant example of and contribution to Ottoman historiography. At the age of twenty-five in 1633, while in Aleppo, Celebi began compiling and composing the work; it occupied him for the next twenty years until its completion in 1652. An account of this is contained in another of his widely read books, " where he writes: "On my stay in Aleppo, I would visit bookshops to browse, and then when I had returned to Istanbul and came into some money, I began acquiring books and letters. In 1638, a relative died and left me a more substantial legacy, which was spent in large part collecting the great works which I had seen in Aleppo, Istanbul and in the public repositories of the Sultanate of Oman". Celebi died suddenly in 1657, leaving many works in unfinished or draft form. (en)
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  • كشف الظنون عن أسامي الكتب والفنون هو مسرد ضخم للكتب العربية والفارسية والتركية، وضعه الحاجي خليفة، وهو من علماء القرن الحادي عشر الهجري (السابع عشر الميلادي). ضمّ الكتاب أسماء آلاف الكتب إضافةً لأسماء مصنفيها، على ذلك يعتبر من المراجع الرئيسة للباحثين عن آثار المؤلفين في التراث الإسلامي. (ar)
  • Kâtip Çelebi, or Haji Khalifa, is celebrated in the countries of the Islamic East as the author of the Kashf al-Zunun 'an Asami al-Kutub wa al-Funun (The Removal of Doubt from the Names of Books and the Arts). This bibliographic encyclopedia of books and sciences, written in Arabic, was based on the Miftāḥ al-Saʿāda wa-miṣbāḥ al-Siyādah by the c.16th Ottoman historian, Taşköprüzade. However the Kaşf substantially enlarges it, cataloging titles of approximately 15,000 books; 9,500 names of authors; and 300 sciences and arts. The work is seen as a significant example of and contribution to Ottoman historiography. (en)
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