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An Ottoman cosmography : translation of Cihānnümā

Csirkés, Ferenc, Kâtip Çelebi, Dankoff, Robert, Curry, John, Leiser, Gary, Hagen, Gottfried

2022,2021

Overview

Cihannüma is the summa of Ottoman geography and one of the axial texts of Islamic intellectual history. Katib Çelebi (d. 1657) sought to combine the Islamic geographical tradition with the new European discoveries, atlases and surveys. His cosmography included a comprehensive description of the regions of the world, extending westward from Japan and as far as the eastern Ottoman provinces. Ebu Bekr b. Behram ed-Dimaski (d. 1691) continued with a survey of the Arab countries and the remaining Ottoman provinces of Anatolia. Ibrahim Müteferrika combined the two, with additional notes and maps of his own, in one of the earliest Ottoman printed books, Kitab-i Cihannüma (1732). Our translation includes the entire text of MuÞteferrik?a's edition, distinguishing clearly between the contributions of the three authors. Based on Katib Çelebi's original manuscript we have made hundreds of corrections to Müteferrika's text. Additional corrections are based on comparison with Katib Çelebi's Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Latin and Italian sources.

• Publisher: Brill
• Subject: Cartography -- Early works to 1800 / Cosmography -- Early works to 1800 / Geography -- Early works to 1800 / Spherical astronomy -- Early works to 1800 / Turkey -- Geography -- Early works to 1800 / World maps -- Early works to 1800
• ISBN: 9004441328, 9789004441323