HAJJI KHALIFA

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HAJJI KHALIFA [in full Mustafa ibn `Abdallah Katib Chelebi Hajji: Khalifal (ca. 15991658), Arabic and Turkish author, was born at Constantinople. He became secretary to the commissariat department of the Turkish army in Anatolia, was with the army in Bagdad in 1625, was present at the siege of Erzerum, and returned to Constantinople in 1628. In the following year he was again in Bagdad and Hamadan, and in 1633 at Aleppo, whence he made the

pilgrimage

PILGRIMAGE (Fr. pelerinage, Lat. peregrinatio)

to Mecca (hence his title Hajji). The following year he was in Erivan and then returned to Constantinople. Here he obtained a post in the head office of the commissariat department, which afforded him time for study. He seems to have attended the lectures of

great

GREAT

teachers up to the time of his death, and made a practice of visiting bookshops and noting the titles and contents of all books he found there. His largest

work

WORK

is the Bibliographical Encyclopaedia written in Arabic. In this

work

WORK

, after five chapters dealing with the sciences generally, the titles of Arabian, Persian and Turkish books written up to his own time are arranged in alphabetical, order. With the titles are given, where possible, short notes on the author, his date, and sometimes the intro-ductory words of his work. It was edited by G. Flugel with Latin translation and a useful appendix (7 vols.

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

, 18351858). The text alone of this edition has been reproduced at Constantinople (1893).
Hajji Khalifa also wrote in Turkish: a chronological conspectus of general history (translated into Italian by G. R. Carli, Venice, 1697); a history of the Turkish empire from 1594 to 1655 (Constantinople, 187o); a history of the naval wars of the Turks (Constantinople, 1729; chapters 1-4 translated by J.

Mitchell

, London, 1831); a general geography published at Constantinople, 1732 (Latin trans. by M. Norberg, London and Gotha, 1818 ; German trans. of part by J. von

Hammer

HAMMER, FRIEDRICH JULIUS (1810-1862)

, Vienna, 1812; French trans. of part by V. de St Martin in his Geography of Asia

Minor

, vol. I).
For his life see the preface to Flugel's edition;

list

LIST (O.E.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
)
LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

of his works in C. Brockelmann's Gesch. d. arabischen Literatur (Berlin, 1902), vol. ii., pp. 428-429. (G. W. T.)

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