Tarjama-yi Taqwim al-tawarikh

The Ottoman biographer, historian and former career military officer Katib Celebi (d. 1067/1657), better known as Hajji Khalifa, completed his Taqwim al-tawarikh in Istanbul in 1058/1648. Begun as an excerpt of his earlier history Fadhlakat aqwal al-akhyar, he expanded it to cover personalities and events up to the days in which it was written. Composed in a mixture of Ottoman Turkish and Persian,...