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Derviş Mehmed Zillî (25 March 1611 – 1682), known as Evliya Çelebi ( ota, اوليا چلبى), was an Ottoman explorer who travelled through the territory of the
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and neighboring lands over a period of forty years, recording his commentary in a
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called the '' Seyâhatnâme'' ("Book of Travel"). The name
Çelebi Çelebi is a town and district of Kırıkkale Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located m ...
is an
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title meaning "gentleman" or "man of God" (see pre-1934 Turkish naming conventions).


Life

Evliya Çelebi was born in
Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya ( Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis ( ...
in 1611 to a wealthy family from Kütahya. Both his parents were attached to the
Ottoman court Ottoman court was the culture that evolved around the court of the Ottoman Empire. Ottoman court was held at the Topkapı Palace in Constantinople where the sultan was served by an army of pages and scholars. Some served in the Treasury and the ...
, his father, Derviş Mehmed Zilli, as a jeweller, and his mother as an Abkhazian relation of the grand vizier
Melek Ahmed Pasha Melek Ahmed Pasha ("Ahmed Pasha the Angel"; 1604–1662) was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman statesman and Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, grand vizier during the reign of Mehmed IV. Early years He was of Abkhaz people, Abkhaz (or Abazins, Ab ...
. In his book, Evliya Çelebi traces his paternal genealogy back to
Ahmad Yasawi Ahmad Yasawi ( kk, Қожа Ахмет Ясауи, Qoja Ahmet Iasaui, قوجا احمەت ياساۋٸ; fa, خواجه اَحمدِ یَسوی, Khwāje Ahmad-e Yasavī; 1093–1166) was a Turkic poet and Sufi, an early mystic who exerted a pow ...
, an early Sufi mystic. Evliya Çelebi received a court education from the Imperial ''ulama'' (scholars). He may have joined the
Gulshani The Gulshani ( tr, Gülşenî) is a Halveti sub-order founded by Pir Ibrahim Gulshani, a Turkomen Sufi Sheikh (Sufism) from Eastern Anatolia, who died in Egypt. His family roots reaches to Oguzata shah in Azerbaijan. When the Ottomans conq ...
Sufi order, as he shows an intimate knowledge of their '' khanqah'' in
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, and a graffito exists in which he referred to himself as ''Evliya-yı Gülşenî'' ("Evliya of the Gülşenî"). A devout Muslim opposed to fanaticism, Evliya could recite the Quran from memory and joked freely about Islam. Though employed as a clergyman and entertainer at the Imperial Court of Sultan
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Evliya refused employment that would keep him from travelling.'' Jerusalem: The Biography'', page 303-304,
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, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011.
Çelebi had studied vocal and instrumental music as a pupil of a renowned
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dervish by the name of 'Umar Gulshani, and his musical gifts earned him much favor at the Imperial Palace impressing even the chief musician Amir Guna. He was also trained in the theory of music called . His journal-writing began in Constantinople, with the taking of notes on buildings, markets, customs and culture, and in 1640 it was augmented with accounts of his travels beyond the confines of the city. The collected notes of his travels form a ten-volume work called the ''Seyahatname'' ("Travelogue"). Departing from the Ottoman literary convention of the time, he wrote in a mixture of vernacular and high Turkish, with the effect that the Seyahatname has remained a popular and accessible reference work about life in the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century, including two chapters on
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. Evliya Çelebi died in 1684, it is unclear whether he was in Istanbul or Cairo at the time.


Travels


Europe

Çelebi claimed to have encountered Native Americans as a guest in
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during his visit of 1663. He wrote: "
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cursed those priests, saying, 'Our world used to be peaceful, but it has been filled by greedy people, who make war every year and shorten our lives.'" While visiting
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in 1665–66, Çelebi noted some similarities between words in
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, an early observation of the relationship between what would later be known as two
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. Çelebi visited
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and in book II describes the fall of
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to the Sultan; in book VIII he recounts the Candia campaign.


Croatia

During his travels in South Slavic regions of the Ottoman Empire Çelebi visited various regions of the modern-day
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including northern Dalmatia, parts of
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, Međimurje and
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. He recorded variety of
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and
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sources. They included descriptions of first hand encounters, third party narrator witnesses and invented elements.


Circassia

Çelebi traveled to
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as well, in 1640. He commented on the women's beauty and talked about the absence of mosques and bazaars despite being a Muslim country.Evliya Çelebi. ''Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnâmesi''. Beyoğlu, İstanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları Ltd. Şti., 1996 He talks about the hospitality of Circassians and mentions that he could not write the Circassian language using letters, and compared the language to a "magpie shout".


Bosnia

Evliya Çelebi visited the town of
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, then in
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. He wrote that the name ''Mostar'' means "bridge-keeper", in reference to the town's celebrated bridge, 28 meters long and 20 meters high. Çelebi wrote that it "is like a rainbow arch soaring up to the skies, extending from one cliff to the other. ...I, a poor and miserable slave of Allah, have passed through 16 countries, but I have never seen such a high bridge. It is thrown from rock to rock as high as the sky."


Kosovo

In 1660 Çelebi went to Kosovo and referred to the central part of the region as '' Arnavud'' (آرناوود) and noted that in
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its inhabitants were speakers of Albanian or Turkish and few spoke Bosnian. The highlands around the
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,
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and Prizren areas Çelebi considered as being the "mountains of Arnavudluk". Çelebi referred to the "mountains of Peć" as being in Arnavudluk (آرناوودلق) and considered the
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that converged in Mitrovica as forming Kosovo's border with Bosnia. He viewed the "Kılab" or Lab river as having its source in Arnavudluk (Albania) and by extension the
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as being part of that river. Çelebi also included the central mountains of Kosovo within Arnavudluk.


Albania

Çelebi travelled extensively throughout Albania, visiting it on 3 occasions. He visited Tirana, Lezha, Shkodra and Bushat in 1662, Delvina, Gjirokastra, Tepelena, Skrapar, Përmet, Berat, Kanina, Vlora, Bashtova, Durrës, Kavaja, Peqin, Elbasan, Pogradec, Kavaja and Durrës in 1670.


Parthenon

In 1667 Çelebi expressed his marvel at the
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's sculptures and described the building as "like some impregnable fortress not made by human agency." He composed a poetic supplication that the Parthenon, as "a work less of human hands than of Heaven itself, should remain standing for all time."


Asia


Shirvan

Of oil merchants in Baku Çelebi wrote: "By Allah's decree oil bubbles up out of the ground, but in the manner of hot springs, pools of water are formed with oil congealed on the surface like cream. Merchants wade into these pools and collect the oil in ladles and fill goatskins with it, these oil merchants then sell them in different regions. Revenues from this oil trade are delivered annually directly to the Safavid
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.


Crimean Khanate

Evliya Çelebi remarked on the impact of Cossack raids from
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upon the territories of the
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, destroying trade routes and severely depopulating the regions. By the time of Çelebi's arrival, many of the towns visited were affected by the Cossacks, and the only place in
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he reported as safe was the Ottoman fortress at Arabat. Çelebi wrote of the
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in the Crimea: Çelebi estimated that there were about 400,000 slaves in the Crimea but only 187,000 free Muslims.


Syria and Palestine

In contrast to many European and some Jewish travelogues of Syria and Palestine in the 17th century, Çelebi wrote one of the few detailed travelogues from an Islamic point of view. Çelebi visited Palestine twice, once in 1649 and once in 1670–1. An English translation of the first part, with some passages from the second, was published in 1935–1940 by the self-taught Palestinian scholar
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who worked for the Palestine Department of Antiquities. Significant are the many references to Palestine, or "Land of Palestine", and Evliya notes, "All chronicles call this country Palestine."*


''Seyâhatnâme''

Although many of the descriptions the ''Seyâhatnâme'' were written in an exaggerated manner or were plainly inventive fiction or third-source misinterpretation, his notes remain a useful guide to the culture and lifestyles of the 17th century Ottoman Empire. The first volume deals exclusively with Istanbul, the final volume with Egypt. Currently there is no English translation of the entire ''Seyahatname'', although there are translations of various parts. The longest single English translation was published in 1834 by
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, an Austrian orientalist: it may be found under the name "Evliya Efendi." Von Hammer-Purgstall's work covers the first two volumes (Istanbul and
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) but its language is antiquated. Other translations include Erich Prokosch's nearly complete translation into German of the tenth volume, the 2004 introductory work entitled ''The World of Evliya Çelebi: An Ottoman Mentality'' written by
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, and Dankoff and Sooyong Kim's 2010 translation of select excerpts of the ten volumes, ''An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Çelebi''. Evliya is noted for having collected specimens of the languages in each region he traveled in. There are some 30 Turkic dialects and languages cataloged in the ''Seyâhatnâme''. Çelebi notes the similarities between several words from the
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and
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, though he denies any common Indo-European heritage. The ''Seyâhatnâme'' also contains the first transcriptions of many
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and Tsakonian, and the only extant specimens of written Ubykh outside the linguistic literature. In the 10 volumes of his ''Seyahatname'', he describes the following journeys: # Constantinople and surrounding areas (1630) #
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, the
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,
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and
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(1640) # Syria, Palestine,
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and Rumelia (1648) #
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,
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, and
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(1655) #
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and the
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(1656) # Military Campaigns in
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during the fourth Austro-Turkish War (1663/64) #
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, the
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, and the Caucasus for the second time (1664) #
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and then the Crimea and Rumelia for the second time (1667–1670) # the Hajj to
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(1671) #
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and the Sudan (1672)


In popular culture

* Çelebi appears in
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's 1985 novel ''
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'', and is featured in ''The Adventures of Captain Bathory'' (Dobrodružstvá kapitána Báthoryho) novels by Slovak writer Juraj Červenák. * ''İstanbul Kanatlarımın Altında'' (''Istanbul Under My Wings'', 1996) is a film about the lives of legendary aviator brothers
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Lagâri Hasan Çelebi Lagâri Hasan Çelebi was an Ottoman scientist, engineer and aviator who, according to the account written by traveller Evliya Çelebi, made a successful crewed rocket flight. Account Evliya Çelebi reported that in 1633, Lagari Hasan Çelebi ...
, and the Ottoman society in the early 17th century, during the reign of Murad IV, as witnessed and narrated by Evliya Çelebi. * ''Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu'' (Evliya Çelebi and the Water of Life, 2014, dir. Serkan Zelzele), a children's adaptation of Çelebi's adventures, is the first full-length Turkish animated film. *
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included the 400th anniversary of Çelebi's birth in its timetable for the celebration of anniversaries. * In the 2015 TV series Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem, is portrayed by Turkish actor Necip Memili.


See also

*
Ahmad ibn Fadlan Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Rāšid ibn Ḥammād, ( ar, أحمد بن فضلان بن العباس بن راشد بن حماد; ) commonly known as Ahmad ibn Fadlan, was a 10th-century Muslim traveler, famous for his account of hi ...
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Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi (;hezarfen
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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 ...
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Abbas ibn Firnas Abu al-Qasim Abbas ibn Firnas ibn Wirdas al-Takurini ( ar, أبو القاسم عباس بن فرناس بن ورداس التاكرني; c. 809/810 – 887 A.D.), also known as Abbas ibn Firnas ( ar, عباس ابن فرناس), Latinized Armen ...
*
Evliya Çelebi Way The Evliya Çelebi Way is a cultural trekking route celebrating the early stages of the journey made in 1671 to Mecca by the eponymous Ottoman Turkish gentleman-adventurer, Evliya Çelebi. Evliya travelled the Ottoman Empire and beyond for some 40 ...
*
Turkish literature Turkish literature ( tr, Türk edebiyatı) comprises oral compositions and written texts in Turkic languages. The Ottoman and Azerbaijani forms of Turkish, which forms the basis of much of the written corpus, were highly influenced by Persian a ...


References


Sources


In Turkish

* Evliya Çelebi. ''Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnâmesi''. Beyoğlu, İstanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları Ltd. Şti., 1996. 10 vols. * Evliya Çelebi: ''Seyahatnamesi''. 2 Vol. Cocuk Klasikleri Dizisi. Berlin 2005. (A selection translated into modern Turkish for children) * Robert Dankoff, Nuran Tezcan, Evliya Çelebi'nin Nil Haritası - Dürr-i bî misîl în ahbâr-ı Nîl, Yapı Kredi Yayınları 2011 * Nuran Tezcan, Semih Tezcan (Edit.), Doğumunun 400. Yılında Evliya Çelebi, T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı Yayınları, Ankara 2011


In English

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* ''Narrative of travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the seventeenth century, by Evliyá Efendí''. Trans. Ritter Joseph von Hammer. London: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1846. * * ''Evliya Çelebi in Diyarbekir: The Relevant Section of The Seyahatname''. Trans. and Ed. Martin van Bruinessen and Hendrik Boeschoten. New York : E.J. Brill, 1988. * ''The Intimate Life of an Ottoman Statesman: Melek Ahmed Pasha (1588–1662) as Portrayed in Evliya Çelebi's Book of Travels''. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991. * ''Evliya Çelebi's Book of Travels. Evliya Çelebi in Albania and Adjacent Regions (Kosovo, Montenegro). The Relevant Sections of the Seyahatname''. Trans. and Ed. Robert Dankoff. Leiden and Boston 2000. * Robert Dankoff: ''An Ottoman Mentality. The World of Evliya Çelebi''. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2004. * Klaus Kreiser, "Evliya Çelebi", eds. C. Kafadar, H. Karateke, C. Fleischer. October 2005. * Evliya Çelebi: ''Selected Stories by Evliya Çelebi'', edited by Zeynep Üstün, translated by Havva Aslan, Profil Yayıncılık, Istanbul 2007 * *


In German

* Helena Turková: ''Die Reisen und Streifzüge Evliyâ Çelebîs in Dalmatien und Bosnien in den Jahren 1659/61''. Prag 1965. * Klaus Kreiser: ''Edirne im 17. Jahrhundert nach Evliyâ Çelebî. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der osmanischen Stadt''. Freiburg 1975. * ''Im Reiche des Goldenen Apfels. Des türkischen Weltenbummlers Evliâ Çelebis denkwürdige Reise in das Giaurenland und die Stadt und Festung Wien anno 1665''. Trans. R. Kreutel, Graz, et al. 1987. * ''Ins Land der geheimnisvollen Func: des türkischen Weltenbummlers, Evliyā Çelebi, Reise durch Oberägypten und den Sudan nebst der osmanischen Provinz Habes in den Jahren 1672/73''. Trans. Erich Prokosch. Graz: Styria, 1994. * ''Evliyā Çelebis Anatolienreise aus dem dritten Band des Seyāḥatnāme''. Trans. Korkut M. Buğday. New York: E.J. Brill, 1996. * ''Evliya Çelebis Reise von Bitlis nach Van: ein Auszug aus dem Seyahatname''. Trans. Christiane Bulut. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1997. * ''Manisa nach Evliyā Çelebi: aus dem neunten Band des Seyāḥat-nāme''. Trans. Nuran Tezcan. Boston: Brill, 1999. * ''Kairo in der zweiten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts. Beschrieben von Evliya Çelebi''. Trans. Erich Prokosch. Istanbul 2000.


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Ottoman text edition (1896)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Evliya Celebi 1611 births 1682 deaths Explorers of Asia 17th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire 17th-century explorers People from the Ottoman Empire of Abkhazian descent 17th-century travel writers Turkish travel writers Holy Land travellers Explorers of the Caucasus People from Istanbul Scholars of the Ottoman Empire