Kâtip Çelebi
Polymath and author
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Kâtip Çelebi, or Ḥājjī Khalīfa; was a Turkish polymath and author of the 17th-century Ottoman Empire. He compiled a vast universal bibliographic encyclopaedia of books and sciences, the Kaşf az-Zunūn, and wrote many treatises and essays. Wikipedia
Born: February 1609, Istanbul Eyalet
Died: October 6, 1657 (age 48 years), Istanbul Eyalet
Influenced by: Abd al-Rahman Ibn Khaldun, Ali Qushji, Al-Sharif al-Jurjani, and more
Full name: Mustafa bin Abdullah
Nationality: Ottoman
Parents: Abdullah Efendi
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