Leontik, Marija (2013) Bati dünyasina pencere açan Kâtip Çelebi’nin Makedonya için önemi ve değeri. Bal-Tam Türklük Bilgisi, 18. pp. 183-192. ISSN 1452-2179
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Abstract
The importance and value of Katip Celebi’s for Macedonia who opened the window to the Western world
Abstract: Katip Çelebi was born in İstanbul, Ottoman Empire in 1609. Katip Çelebi was a famous Ottoman scholar, historian and geographer. He was the first Muslim scholar since the 13th century to write about scientific developments outside of the Islamic world. Katip Çelebi is one of the most productive authors of non-religious scientific literature in the 17th century Ottoman Empire. During his short lifetime of forty eight years, he wrote twenty one books about historiography, geography, philosophy, astronomy, Islamic law, Sufism and literature. Katip Çelebi with these works wants to open the way to a new vitality and modernization in the Ottoman Empire. The works of Katip Çelebi, one of the most prominent thinkers of the Ottoman centuries, were translated into Western languages.
Katip Çelebi’s most complex work is a world geography in Turkish under the title “Cihannüma”. It is very important for us that Katip Çelebi in this book wrote also about the Rumelia’s cities like Skopje, Bitola, Stip, Prilep, Prespa, Debar, Doyran, Ohrid... He successfully describes the cities and theirs rivers, lakes, climate. His notes are very important and useful for the geographical and cultural aspects of 17th century Macedonia. Nowadays “Cihannüma” is a very important book to learn about the past situations in the Macedonian cities. This paper will deal with this matter.
Katip Çelebi died in İstanbul in 1657.
Key words: Ottoman scholar, “Cihannüma”, Rumelia’s cities, Macedonian cities.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Humanities > Languages and literature |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Philology |
| Depositing User: | Marija Leontik |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Dec 2013 15:11 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Dec 2013 15:11 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/8456 |
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