An Ottoman cosmography : : translation of Cihānnümā / / by Katib Celebi ; edited by Gottfried Hagen, Robert Dankoff ; translated by Ferenc Csirkés, John Curry, Gary Leiser.

• Superior document: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 142
• VerfasserIn: Kâtip Çelebi, 1609-1657,
• TeilnehmendeR: Dankoff, Robert,; Hagen, Gottfried, 1963-; Csirkés, Ferenc,; Curry, John Court, 1887-; Leiser, Gary, 1946-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English; Turkish
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 142.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Cihānnümā is the summa of Ottoman geography and one of the axial texts of Islamic intellectual history. Kātib Çelebi (d. 1657) sought to combine the Islamic geographical tradition with the new European discoveries, atlases and surveys. His cosmography included a comprehensive description of the regions of the world, extending westward from Japan and as far as the eastern Ottoman provinces. Ebū Bekr b. Behrām ed-Dimaşḳī (d. 1691) continued with a survey of the Arab countries and the remaining Ottoman provinces of Anatolia. İbrāhīm Müteferriḳa combined the two, with additional notes and maps of his own, in one of the earliest Ottoman printed books, Kitāb-ı Cihānnümā (1732). Our translation includes the entire text of Müteferriḳa's edition, distinguishing clearly between the contributions of the three authors. Based on Kātib Çelebi's original manuscript we have made hundreds of corrections to Müteferriḳa's text. Additional corrections are based on comparison with Kātib Çelebi's Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Latin and Italian sources.

Table of Contents

Preface -- References and Abbreviations -- Outline of Cihānnümā -- Introduction to Cihānnümā -- Gottfried Hagen -- Introduction to the Translation -- Robert Dankoff -- Translation of Cihānnümā -- Part 1, by Kātib Çelebi -- Ferenc Csirkés, John Curry and Gary Leiser -- Introduction -- 1 On the Earth -- 2 On the Seas -- 3 On the Major Parts of the Earth -- 4 On the Continent of Europe -- 5 On (the Continent of) Africa -- 6 On the Continent of Asia -- 7 On (the Continent of) America, i.e., the New World -- 8 On 90 Latitude -- 9 On the South Pole -- 10 On the Relation of Countries and Directions, According to the Triplicities of the Constellations and Planets -- 11 On the Inhabitants of the World with Respect to Religions -- 12 Island of Yāpūnīā (Iaponia, Japan) -- 13 Map of (New) Guinea -- 14 Islands of Chīn u Hind (East Indies) -- 15 Islands of Gilolo and Molucca -- 16 Mindanao, etc. -- 17 Sumatra -- 18 Borneo -- 19 Island of Ceylon -- 20 Clime of Chīn u Māchīn (China) -- 21 Clime of Khitāy (Cathay) -- 22 Clime of India -- 23 Clime of Sind -- 24 Country of Makran -- 25 Clime of Zābulistān, Khwāst and Ashnāghar -- 26 Country of Kashmir and Tibet -- 27 Country of Sijistan -- 28 Country of Badakhshān, Ghūr and Ṭukhāristān -- 29 Clime of Kirmān, Hormuz and Lār -- 30 Clime of Fārs -- 31 Country of Khūzistān and Lūristān -- 32 Clime of Jabal (i.e., Jibāl) or Persian Iraq -- 33 Clime of Khurāsān and Quhistān -- 34 Country of Qūmis, Ṭabaristān and Māzandarān -- 35 Clime of Khwārazm, Daylam and Gīlān -- 36 Clime of Transoxiana -- 37 Clime of Turkistan and the Steppe -- 38 Clime of Azerbaijan -- 39 Clime of Arrān, Mūqān and Shirwān -- 40 Country of Dagestan, Georgia, etc. -- 41 Clime of Arminiyya -- Part 2, by Ebū Bekr b. Behrām ed-Dimaşḳī -- Gary Leiser -- 42 Clime of al-Jazīra (Upper Mesopotamia) -- 43 Clime of ʿIrāq al-ʿArab (Lower Mesopotamia) -- 44 Description of the Arabian Peninsula -- 45 Region of Shām (Syria) -- 46 Description of (Province of) Anaṭolı -- Appendix: Maps and Diagrams -- About Maps and Diagrams -- Maps and Diagrams -- Index.