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HAJJI See also:KHALIFA [in full Mustafa See also:ibn `Abdallah Katib Chelebi Hajji: Khalifal (ca . 1599–1658), Arabic and See also:Turkish author, was See also:born at See also:Constantinople . He became secretary to the See also:commissariat See also:department of the Turkish See also:army in See also:Anatolia, was with the army in See also:Bagdad in 1625, was See also:present at the See also:siege of See also:Erzerum, and returned to Constantinople in 1628 . In the following See also:year he was again in Bagdad and See also:Hamadan, and in 1633 at See also:Aleppo, whence he made the See also:pilgrimage to See also:Mecca (hence his See also:title Hajji) . The following year he was in See also:Erivan and then returned to Constantinople . Here he obtained a See also:post in the See also:head See also:office of the commissariat department, which afforded him See also:time for study . He seems to have attended the lectures of See also:great teachers up to the time of his See also:death, and made a practice of visiting bookshops and noting the titles and contents of all books he found there . His largest See also:work is the See also:Bibliographical See also:Encyclopaedia written in Arabic . In this work, after five chapters dealing with the sciences generally, the titles of Arabian, See also:Persian and Turkish books written up to his own time are arranged in alphabetical, See also:order . With the titles are given, where possible, See also:short notes on the author, his date, and sometimes the intro-ductory words of his work . It was edited by G . See also:Flugel with Latin See also:translation and a useful appendix (7 vols .
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The See also:text alone of this edition has been reproduced at Constantinople (1893)
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Hajji See also:Khalifa also wrote in Turkish: a See also:chronological conspectus of See also:general See also:history (translated into See also:Italian by G
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Carli, See also:Venice, 1697); a history of the Turkish See also:empire from 1594 to 1655 (Constantinople, 187o); a history of the See also:naval See also:wars of the See also:Turks (Constantinople, 1729; chapters 1-4 translated by J
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See also:Mitchell, See also:London, 1831); a general See also:geography published at Constantinople, 1732 (Latin trans. by M
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Norberg, London and See also:Gotha, 1818 ; See also:German trans. of See also:part by J. von See also:Hammer, See also:Vienna, 1812; See also:French trans. of part by V. de St See also: W . |
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