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Katip Çelebi nin anılması ile ilgili UNESCO kararı 2009: 400th anniversary of the birth of Katip Çelebi, scholar (1609-1657)

Katip Çelebi was a Turkish scholar. Among his chief works is the “Keşfü’z-zünûn an esâmi’l-kütüb ve’l-fünûn” which documents some 15,000 books. The best known of his encyclopaedic contributions is the “Keşfü’z-zünûn”, a bibliographical dictionary in the Arab language, with over 14,500 entries in alphabetical order. This work served as a basis for the “Bibliothèque Orientale” by Barthélemy d’Herbelot de Molainville. He was also the author of many works in the fields of geography, history and economics.