Kashf al-Zunun 'an Asami al-Kutub wa al-Funun (''The Removal of Doubt from the Names of Books and the Arts'') is a bibliographic encyclopedia of books and sciences compiled by Turkish polymath
Kâtip Çelebi
Kâtip Çelebi (), or Ḥājjī Khalīfa ()), Muṣṭafa Ben Hājī Khalīfah, Haji Khalifa, Hajji Khalifeh, Hazi Halife, Hadschi Chalfa, Khalfa, Kalfa, etc. (*1017 AH/1609 AD – d. 1068 AH/1657 AD); was a Turkish polymath and author of the ...
. It was written in Arabic and was based on the ''Miftāḥ al-Saʿāda wa-miṣbāḥ al-Siyādah''} by the c.16th Ottoman historian,
Taşköprüzade
Taşköprüzade or Taşköprülüzade Ahmet (); variant Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá ibn Khalīl Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah () (3 December 1494 – 16 April 1561) was an Ottoman historian-chronicler living during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, wh ...
. 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.
[Gömbeyaz, Kadir. "Çelebi, Kâtip." In ''The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics''. Oxford University Press, 2014.][Hammond, Marlé. "manāqib." In ''A Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms and Devices''. Oxford University Press, 2018.]
At the age of twenty-five in 1633, while in
Aleppo
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, 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, "
Mizan al-Haq," 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.
[Gömbeyaz, Kadir. "Çelebi, Kâtip." In ''The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics''. Oxford University Press, 2014.]
Contents
*Vol.1. Preface & Letter ''
alif''
*Vol.2. Letters ''
bá''-''
jím''
*Vol.3. Letters ''
há''-''
sín''
*Vol.4. Letters ''
shín''-''
cáf''
*Vol.5. Letters ''
káf''-''
mím'' ( -moghíth)
*Vol.6. Letters ''mím'' (mofátehat- )-''
yá''
*Vol.7. Library catalogues of
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...
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Damascus
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Rhodes
Rhodes (; el, Ρόδος , translit=Ródos ) is the largest and the historical capital of the Dodecanese islands of Greece. Administratively, the island forms a separate municipality within the Rhodes regional unit, which is part of the So ...
and
Istanbul
Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...
.
Editions
*Muhammad Azti Effendi Boshnah Zadeh (d. 1681).
*Ibrahīm al-Rūmi al-Arabji (d. 1775) mentioned by
Khalil al-Muradi Abu'l-Mawadda Sayyid Muhammad Khalil al-Muradi (died 1791) — was a Syrian historian under the Ottoman Empire. He was born into a family of ulema and acted as Hanafi mufti and ''naqib al-ashraf'' (head of the Prophet's descendants) in Damascus
...
in his biographic dictionar
Silk al-Durar (Arabic)
*Ahmed Hanífzádeh, Mollae El-Hájj Ibrahím Haníf Efendi, ed., () (d.1802) titled (Athārnū) (). Contains 5000 books. Appended by Flügel in Vol.VI, Leipzig edition (1835–1858) with Latin translation and a volume for Oriental libraries.
*Sheikh Islam Aref Hikmat, ed., (d.1858) up to the letter ''jím'' (c). (See Al-Arab Al-Arab 2: 897).
*Ishmael Pasha al-Baghdadi, ed., (d.1921), titled ''The Explanation of the Makenun''. Contains 19000 books and was followed by translations of the authors (1941).
*Ismail Saeb Singer, ed.
*Jamil al-‘Uẓmā () ('The Great Beauty') (1933), titled ''al-Sirr al-Maṣūn'' () ('Well-kept Secret' - kh) with introduction (1000 page) titled ''Book of Science and Travel'' ().
*Mohammed Al-Sadiq Al-Nefir (1938), titled ''Salwa Al-Mahzun''.
*Muhammad bin Mustafa al-Bakri ed., (d. 1782), ''Khulāsat Tahqíq az-Zunūn'' ()('Investigation of Suspicions, abridged'); Index to ''al-Kashf'' and amendments.
*Ali Khairi, ed., (d.1909) ''Ḍiyā’ al-‘Aiūn'' () (Illumination of the Eminent); a footnote to ''al-Kashf''.
*Sources of
Andalusian heritage: the publications of the Cultural Center in
Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi (, ; ar, أَبُو ظَبْيٍ ' ) is the capital and second-most populous city (after Dubai) of the United Arab Emirates. It is also the capital of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the centre of the Abu Dhabi Metropolitan Area.
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, pitfalls of correcting Haji Khalifa in dealing with the heritage of Andalusia.
*Abridgement and supplement; Hussein Abbasi Nabhani Halabi, ed., (d.1684), titled ('The Complete Memorial of Antiquities').
Translations
* ''Lexicon Bibliographicum et Encyclopaedicum'',(1835-58) Arabic-Latin by
Gustav Leberecht Flügel
Gustav Leberecht Flügel (February 18, 1802 – July 5, 1870) was a German orientalist.
Life
After attending high school in his native city Flügel studied theology and philosophy in Leipzig. He soon discovered his passion for oriental langua ...
* ''Bibliothèque Orientale'', (1697) French by
Barthélemy d'Herbelot
Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville (14 December 16258 December 1695) was a French Orientalist.
Bibliography
Born in Paris, he was educated at the University of Paris, and devoted himself to the study of oriental languages, going to Italy to pe ...
and
Antoine Galland
Antoine Galland (; 4 April 1646 – 17 February 1715) was a French orientalist and archaeologist, most famous as the first European translator of '' One Thousand and One Nights'', which he called ''Les mille et une nuits''. His version of the t ...
, with contributions from
Johann Jacob Reiske
Johann Jakob Reiske (Neo-Latin: Johannes Jacobus Reiskius; December 25, 1716 – August 14, 1774) was a German scholar and physician. He was a pioneer in the fields of Arabic and Byzantine philology as well as Islamic numismatics.
Biography
Reisk ...
and
Henry Albert Schultens
Hendrik Albert Schultens (25 February 1749 – 12 August 1793) was a third generation Dutch linguist.
Life
Shultens was born in Herborn. He was the son of Jan Jacob Schultens, orientalist and professor at Leiden University and Suzanna Amali ...
.
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Arabic literature
Islamic literature
Persian literature
Turkish literature
1650s books
17th-century encyclopedias