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Also Known As Kâtib Çelebî • Muṣṭafa ibn ʿAbd Allāh • Khaṭīb Shalabī • Haci Halife • Ḥajjī Khalīfa
Born February 1609
Died 1657 (aged 47)
Notable Works “Jihannuma” • “Kashf al-ẓunūnʿan asāmi al-kutub wa al-funūn” • “Tuhfat al-Kibar fi Asfar il-Bahar”
Subjects Of Study Ottoman Empire
Ahmed Cevdet Paşa
Turkish statesman, historian, and author
Mehmed Fuat Köprülü
Turkish statesman
Hoca Sadeddin
Turkish historian
Fernand Braudel
French historian and educator
Kemalpaşazâde
Turkish historian
Aşıkpaşazâde
Ottoman historian
Michael Critobulus
Turkish historian
Kemal Atatürk
Kemal Atatürk
president of Turkey
Mimar Sinan: Mosque of Süleyman I the Magnificent
Sinan
Ottoman architect
Celâl Bayar
president of Turkey
İsmet İnönü
president of Turkey
Abdülaziz, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, 19th century; in the Topkapı Palace Museum, Istanbul
Abdülaziz
Ottoman sultan
Fevzi Çakmak
Turkish statesman
Mehmed I
Mehmed I
Ottoman sultan
Mehmed Fuad Paşa
Ottoman vizier
Koƈu Bey
Ottoman statesman
Mehmed Kâmil Paşa
Ottoman vizier
Cemal Paşa
Turkish political leader
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Mehmed II
Ottoman sultan

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