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Khalifa, Hajji

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Khalifa, (Mustafa ibn 'Abdallah Katib Chelebi) Hajji (c. 1609–1657)

Turkish author of works in both Arabic and Turkish. His chief work is Kashf al-zunun/Bibliographica Enyclopaedia in Arabic on Arabic, Turkish, and Persian books and writers.

Khalifa was a soldier in the Ottoman army that took Baghdad in 1625 and was also present at the siege of Erzurum, returning to Constantinople in 1628. In 1633 he made a pilgrimage from Aleppo to Mecca.



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