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Çelebi (title)
Çelebi (, ) was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman title of respect, approximately corresponding to "gentleman", "well-mannered" or "courteous". ''Çelebi'' also means "man of God", as an ''i''-suffixed derivative from ''çalab'' (), which means "God" in Ottoman Turkish. German linguist and Turkologist Marcel Erdal, citing Baron Tiesenhausen, traces ''çalab'' back to Arabic ''djellaba'' "importer, trader, merchant" > "high social positions"; ''jallāb'' is derived from root ''j-l-b'' "to have brought, to import", ultimately from West Semitic root ''g-l-b'' "to catch, to fetch". List of notable people Title Notable people with the title include, in approximate chronological order: * Gazi Çelebi, early-14th-century Turkish pirate and ruler of Sinop * The sons of Ottoman sultan Bayezid I, who fought one another for the throne in the Ottoman Interregnum of 1402 to 1413: ** İsa Çelebi (1380–1406) ** Musa Çelebi (died 1413) ** Mehmed Çelebi (1390–1421), who won the civil war, being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries. The empire emerged from a Anatolian beyliks, ''beylik'', or principality, founded in northwestern Anatolia in by the Turkoman (ethnonym), Turkoman tribal leader Osman I. His successors Ottoman wars in Europe, conquered much of Anatolia and expanded into the Balkans by the mid-14th century, transforming their petty kingdom into a transcontinental empire. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the Fall of Constantinople, conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed II. With its capital at History of Istanbul#Ottoman Empire, Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) and control over a significant portion of the Mediterranean Basin, the Ottoman Empire was at the centre of interacti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoca Çelebi
Ebussuud Efendi (, 30 December 1490 – 23 August 1574),İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, ''Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı'', Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971, p. 114. was a Hanafi Maturidi Ottoman jurist and Quran exegete, served as the Qadi (judge) of Istanbul from 1533 to 1537, and the Shaykh al-Islām of the Ottoman Empire from 1545 to 1574. He was also called "El-İmâdî" because his family hailed from Imâd, a village near İskilip. Ebussuud was the son of Iskilipli Sheikh Muhiddin Muhammad Efendi. In the 1530s, Ebussuud served as a judge in Bursa, Istanbul and Rumelia, where he brought local laws into conformity with Islamic divine law (''sharia''). Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent promoted him to Shaykh al-Islām – the supreme judge and highest official – in 1545, an office Ebussuud held until his death and which he brought to the peak of its power.Schneider, 192. He worked closely with the Sultan, issuing judicial opinions that legitimised Suleiman's killings of Yazidis an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi
Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi Efendi (ca. 1670–1732), also Mehmed Efendi (sometimes spelled Mehemet Effendi in France), was an Ottoman statesman who was delegated as ambassador by the Sultan Ahmed III to Louis XV's France in 1720. He is remembered for his account of his embassy mission (a '' sefâretnâme'', "book of embassy"). Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi was born in Edirne to a family of Georgianİsmail Hâmi Danişmend, ''Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı'', Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971, p. 60. descent. His date of birth is unknown. He was the son of an officer in the Janissary corps, Süleyman Ağa, who died during a campaign to Pécs. Mehmed Çelebi himself was enrolled in the Janissary corps, and since he had served in the 28th battalion ("'' orta''" in Janissary terminology) of the corps, he came to be known with the nickname ''Yirmisekiz'' ("twenty-eight" in Turkish) for his entire life. His descendants, including his son who became a grand vizier, also carried the name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eremia Chelebi
Eremia Chelebi Kömürjian (12–13 May 1637 – 15 July 1695) was an Ottoman-Armenian writer and intellectual from Constantinople. Background Eremia's recent ancestors came from the district around Kemah in the Armenian highlands. Eremia's great grandfather Sarkis Kömürjian, who was a coal dealer (), abandoned his properties in 1590s during the upheaval caused by the Celali rebellions like most local Armenians and migrated to western Anatolia and Thrace. Sarkis died in the town of Gallipoli in southern Thrace. Nahabed, the son of Sarkis, and his only son Mardiros moved to Constantinople. Early life Eremia was born on 12 or 13 May 1637 in the Langa neighborhood of Constantinople to Papas (bishop) Mardiros. Eremia belonged to the Kömürjian family, which was distinguished in intellectual and ecclesiastical circles. Like most Ottoman-Armenians, Eremia was a member of the Armenian Apostolic Church. He had a younger brother Komitas, who would become a priest and "an officially b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evliya Çelebi
Dervish Mehmed Zillî (25 March 1611 – 1682), known as Evliya Çelebi (), was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman explorer who travelled through his home country during its cultural zenith as well as neighboring lands. He travelled for over 40 years, recording his commentary in a travel literature, travelogue called the ''Seyahatnâme'' ("Book of Travel"). The name Çelebi#Title, Çelebi is an honorific meaning "gentleman" or "man of God". Life Evliya Çelebi was born in Istanbul in 1611 to a wealthy family from Kütahya. Both his parents were attached to the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman court, his father, Dervish Mehmed Zilli, as a jeweller, and his mother as an Abkhazians, Abkhazian relation of the Grand Vizier of Mehmed IV Melek Ahmed Pasha. In his book, Evliya Çelebi traces his paternal genealogy back to Ahmad Yasawi, the earliest known Turkic poet and an early Sufi mystic. Evliya Çelebi received a court education from Ulama#Ottoman era, the Imperial ''ulama'' (scholars). He may have j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lagâri Hasan Çelebi
Lagâri Hasan Çelebi was an Ottoman scientist, engineer and aviator who, according to the account written by traveller Evliya Çelebi, made a successful crewed rocket flight. Account Evliya Çelebi reported that in 1633, Lagari Hasan Çelebi blasted off from Sarayburnu, (the promontory below the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul) in a 7-winged rocket propelled by 50 okka (140 lbs) of gunpowder. The flight was said to have been undertaken at the time of the birth of Sultan Murad IV's daughter. As Evliya Celebi wrote, Lagari proclaimed before launching his craft "O my sultan! Be blessed, I am going to talk to Jesus!"; after ascending in the rocket, he landed in the sea, swimming ashore and joking "O my sultan! Jesus sends his regards to you!"; he was rewarded by the Sultan with silver and the rank of sipahi in the Ottoman army. Evliya Çelebi also wrote of Lagari's brother, Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi, making a flight by glider a year earlier. Popular culture '' Istanbul Beneath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi
Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi (;hezarfen TDK Büyük Türkçe Sözlük. Erişim: 26 Mayıs 2009 1609 – 1640) was an Ottoman scientist, inventor, chemist, astronomer, physician, Andalusi musician, and poet from , reported in the writings of traveler to have achieved sustained unpowered flight.Çelebi, Evliya (2003). ''Seyahatname''. İstanbul: Yapı Kredi Kü ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abro Chelebi
Abraham "Abro" Chelebi (died 1676) was an Ottoman-Armenian merchant. Abro Chelebi served as the purveyor of the Ottoman Army from 1644 onwards. Following the execution of his patron Gazi Hüseyin Pasha in 1659, Abro Chelebi was also jailed but managed to survive and continued to serve the government, this time under Köprülü Ahmed Pasha. Abro Chelebi was a major supporter of the cultural life in Constantinople Constantinople (#Names of Constantinople, see other names) was a historical city located on the Bosporus that served as the capital of the Roman Empire, Roman, Byzantine Empire, Byzantine, Latin Empire, Latin, and Ottoman Empire, Ottoman empire ..., having funded the copying of manuscripts, and the renovation and construction of churches. He died in 1676. He had two surviving sons, Sarkis (born 1644) and Mateos (1654–1695), who continued the mercantile business of the family. References Bibliography * * {{cite book , last1=Barsoumian , first1=Hagop Levon , title= ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Çelebi
Anton Bogos Çelebi (; 1604 – 1674) was an Armenian merchant magnate and Ottoman and later Tuscan official in 17th century. '' Gonfalonier'' of Livorno. He was a brother of Hasan Agha. Name and title Anton bore the title ' çelebi''. Biographical facts Life in the Ottoman Empire Anton Bogos Çelebi was born in Bursa. He came from an Orthodox Armenian family and had a brother who would later convert to Islam and take the name Hasan. Anton's and Hasan's father was an Orthodox Christian Armenian, an Ottoman subject from Bursa. Hasan Agha eventually became customs officer ('' gümrük emini'') of Constantinople (now Istanbul), from 1646 to his death in 1656. Unlike his brother, Anton remained a Christian. He was a wealthy silk merchant in the second quarter of the 17th-century and had his offices both in İzmir (also called Smyrna) and Constantinople. Hasan assisted Anton's rise in his posts in İzmir and Bursa. Eventually the two brothers became considerable economic a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fehmî
Fehmî (1564–1596), also referred as Kınalızâde Mehmet Fehmi, Kınalızâde Fehmi Çelebi or Molla Mohammed (Mehmet) Fehmi was an Ottoman diwan poet. A scion of the prominent Kınalızâde family from Isparta in Anatolia, Fehmî was born in Damascus, today's Syria, back then part of the Damascus Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire, where his father was working as a ''kadı'' (judge). He was the son of the well-known scholar Ali Çelebi, and brother of the other poet Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi (c. 1546 – 1604) was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman poet and bibliographer of the 16th century. His main work is the ''Tezkiretü'ş-Şuara'' (Memoirs of the Poets), one of the best known Ottoman ''tezkires'' (bibliograph .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Fehmi Divan poets from the Ottoman Empire People from Damascus 1564 births 1596 deaths 16th-century poets from the Ottoman Empire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi
Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi (c. 1546 – 1604) was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman poet and bibliographer of the 16th century. His main work is the ''Tezkiretü'ş-Şuara'' (Memoirs of the Poets), one of the best known Ottoman ''tezkires'' (bibliographical dictionary of poets and poetry). Life Hasan was born in year 993 of the Islamic calendar, which starts respectively on 4 March 1546. He was the son of Mullah, Molla Ala al-Din Ali, also known as Ali Çelebi (1510/11 – 1572), an Ottoman jurist and author from Isparta in Anatolia. Hasan was born in Bursa, where his father was working as a ''Kadı'' (judge). He started his work career as a ''mulasim'' (assistant, candidate professor) of Abu Suud, in 1567–68 he became professor, in 1582–83 ''müderris'' (religious teacher) at the mosque of Mehmed the Conqueror, and five years later professor at the Süleymaniye Mosque. In the Islamic year of 999 (1590–91), he started his career as judge; first in Aleppo, followed by Cairo, Edirne, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
