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Author Kâtip Çelebi, 1609-1657, author.

Title An Ottoman cosmography : translation of Cihānnümā / by Kātib Çelebi ; edited by Gottfried Hagen, Robert Dankoff ; translated by Ferenc Csirkés, John Curry, Gary Leiser
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 694 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Handbook of oriental studies/Handbuch der Orientalistik . Section one, The Near and Middle East, 0169-9423 ; volume 142
Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, Near and Middle East (2014) ; v. 142. 0169-9423
Contents Preface -- References and Abbreviations -- Outline of Cihānnümā -- Introduction to Cihānnümā -- Gottfried Hagen -- Introduction to the Translation -- Robert Dankoff -- Translation of Cihānnümā -- Part 1, by Kātib Çelebi -- Ferenc Csirkés, John Curry and Gary Leiser -- Introduction -- 1. On the Earth -- 2. On the Seas -- 3. On the Major Parts of the Earth -- 4. On the Continent of Europe -- 5. On (the Continent of) Africa -- 6. On the Continent of Asia -- 7. On (the Continent of) America, i.e., the New World -- 8. On 90 Latitude -- 9. On the South Pole -- 10. On the Relation of Countries and Directions, According to the Triplicities of the Constellations and Planets -- 11. On the Inhabitants of the World with Respect to Religions -- 12. Island of Yāpūnīā (Iaponia, Japan) -- 13. Map of (New) Guinea -- 14. Islands of Chīn u Hind (East Indies) -- 15. Islands of Gilolo and Molucca -- 16. Mindanao, etc. -- 17. Sumatra -- 18. Borneo -- 19. Island of Ceylon -- 20. Clime of Chīn u Māchīn (China) -- 21. Clime of Khitāy (Cathay) -- 22. Clime of India -- 23. Clime of Sind -- 24. Country of Makran -- 25. Clime of Zābulistān, Khwāst and Ashnāghar -- 26. Country of Kashmir and Tibet -- 27. Country of Sijistan -- 28. Country of Badakhshān, Ghūr and Ṭukhāristān -- 29. Clime of Kirmān, Hormuz and Lār -- 30. Clime of Fārs -- 31. Country of Khūzistān and Lūristān -- 32. Clime of Jabal (i.e., Jibāl) or Persian Iraq -- 33. Clime of Khurāsān and Quhistān -- 34. Country of Qūmis, Tabaristān and Māzandarān -- 35. Clime of Khwārazm, Daylam and Gīlān -- 36. Clime of Transoxiana -- 37. Clime of Turkistan and the Steppe -- 38. Clime of Azerbaijan -- 39. Clime of Arrān, Mūqān and Shirwān -- 40. Country of Dagestan, Georgia, etc. -- 41. Clime of Arminiyya -- Part 2, by Ebū Bekr b. Behrām ed-Dimaşḳī -- Gary Leiser -- 42. Clime of al-Jazīra (Upper Mesopotamia) -- 43. Clime of 'Irāq al-'Arab (Lower Mesopotamia) -- 44. Description of the Arabian Peninsula -- 45. Region of Shām (Syria) -- 46. Description of (Province of) Anaṭolı -- Appendix: Maps and Diagrams -- About Maps and Diagrams -- Maps and Diagrams -- Index
Summary "Cihānnümā is the summa of Ottoman geography and one of the axial texts of Islamic intellectual history. Kātib 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. Ebū Bekr b. Behrām ed-Dimaşḳī(d. 1691) continued with a survey of the Arab countries and the remaining Ottoman provinces of Anatolia. İbrāhīm Müteferriḳa combined the two, with additional notes and maps of his own, in one of the earliest Ottoman printed books, Kitāb-ı Cihānnümā (1732). Our translation includes the entire text of Müteferriḳa's edition, distinguishing clearly between the contributions of the three authors. Based on Kātib Çelebi's original manuscript we have made hundreds of corrections to Müteferriḳa's text. Additional corrections are based on comparison with Kātib Çelebi's Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Latin and Italian sources"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Translated from Turkish
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 13, 2021)
Subject Geography -- Early works to 1800.
World maps -- Early works to 1800.
Cartography -- Early works to 1800
Spherical astronomy -- Early works to 1800
Cosmography -- Early works to 1800
Cartography
Cosmography
Geography
Spherical astronomy
World maps
SUBJECT Turkey -- Geography -- Early works to 1800
Subject Turkey
Genre/Form Early works
Form Electronic book
Author Hagen, Gottfried, 1963- editor.
Dankoff, Robert, editor.
LC no. 2021023567
ISBN 9789004441330
9004441336
Other Titles Cihānnümā. English