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About the Author
Mehmed Zilli (25 March 1611 – 1682), known as Evliya Celebi, was an ethnically Abkhazian Ottoman explorer who travelled through the territory of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring lands over a period of forty years, recording his commentary in a travelogue called the Seyahatname ("Book of Travel"). Evliya Celebi was born in Constantinople in the year 1611 to a wealthy family from Kutahya. His father was Dervis Mehmed Zilli, an Ottoman court jeweller, and mother an Abkhazian relation of the Ottoman grand vizier Melek Ahmed Pasha. In his book, Evliya Çelebi traces his paternal genealogy back to Khoja Akhmet Yassawi. Evliya Çelebi received a court education from the Imperial ulama. He may have joined the Gulshani Sufi order as he shows an intimate knowledge of their khanqah in Cairo, and a graffito in which he referred to himself as Evliya-yı Gulseni ("Evliya of the Gulseni"). A devout Muslim opposed to fanaticism, Evliya could recite the Quran from memory and joked freely about Islam. Though employed as clergy and entertainer to the Ottoman grandees, Evliya refused employment that would keep him from travelling. His journal writing began in Constantinople, taking notes on buildings, markets, customs and culture, and in 1640 it was extended with accounts of his travels beyond the confines of the city. The collected notes of Evilya Celebi's travels form a ten-volume work called the Seyahatname ("Travelogue"). He fought the House of Habsburg in Principality of Transylvania. Evliya Çelebi died sometime after 1682: it is unclear whether he was in Istanbul or Cairo at the time.
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- PublisherNabu Press
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1179417682
- ISBN 13 9781179417684
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages258
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