In the public perception, after the fall of the Roman Empire there was an extraordinary dark period that lasted for about 1000 years, from about 600 CE to the European Renaissance in the 16 th century. Bekir Karliga, conference chairman and on the right is Prof. It begins from the time of the fall of the Roman Empire to the times of KГўtip Г‡elebi.ДЇigure 2: Dr Mehmet Aydin, the Turkish minister of state for Culture, and Professor Salim Al-Hassani, chairman of FSTC, during The Ankara conference on Katib Г‡elebi. A cursory survey of the traditional media, new media and school curricula revealed startling results. There is in fact amnesia or a gap in public knowledge of the period of 1000 years that lasted until KГўtip Г‡elebiвЂ™s time. In his lecture on вЂњThe General conditions of the Islamic civilisation in the 17 th centuryвЂќ, Salim Al-Hassani states that honouring and commemorating educational scholars like KГўtip Г‡elebi brings us to a very important zone of knowledge: that is the lack of knowledge in the minds of people around the world in the major and strategic contributions such scholars have made to our present civilisation. Chairman of FSTC, and Dr Salim Ayduz, senior researcher at FSTC ( click here to see photos of the conference taken by Dr Ayduz). Two FSTC members participated in the conference: Professor Salim T S Al-Hassani, Hon.

On the occasion of the celebrations of the Г‡elebi year, an international conference, with 30 scholars from around the world was organised in June 19-20 2009 at the Ankara State Painting and Sculpture Museum. He was also the author of many works in the fields of geography, history and economics. This work served as a basis for the вЂњBibliothГЁque OrientaleвЂќ by BarthГ©lemy dвЂ™Herbelot de Molainville. Bekir Karliga (Bahcesehir University).ДЄmong his chief works is the famous bio-bibliography book that he wrote in Arabic Kashf al-zunun вЂan asami вЂl-kutub waвЂ™l-funn (вЂњThe Removal of Doubt from the Names of Books and the SciencesвЂќ) which documents some 15,000 entries in alphabetical order. Ralph Salmi (California State University), Tuba Urcu (office manager to Prof. Ahmed Rumeli (Middle East University), the вЂњ1001вЂќ inscribed on a large slice of Turkish bread, Prof. He became a government official (ikindji khalif) while continuing to write his encyclopedic contributions.ДЇigure 1: Dinner in Ankara to welcome FSTCвЂ™s participation at the KГўtip Г‡elebi conference. The son of a soldier, he himself was a soldier for ten years until an inheritance made him turn to a more contemplative life. Known as KГўtip Г‡elebi and Haji Khalifa, his real name is Mustafa bin Abdallah (1609, Istanbul вЂ“ 1657 Istanbul).

KГўtip Г‡elebi was a Turkish Ottoman scholar. On the 400 th anniversary of the birth of KГўtip Г‡elebi (1609-1657), the Turkish commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has declared 2009 year of celebration of this Ottoman intellectual. The world through the eyes of PГ®rГ® Reis and KГўtip Г‡elebiДҐ.1. Celebrating the 400th anniversary of KГўtip Г‡elebiДў. In the following article, we present an account of some of those events that were organised recently in Turkey, with a survey of KГўtip Г‡elebi's bio-bibliography.ДЎ. 2009 being the 400th anniversary of his birth, several meetings and conferences have been organised to celebrate him as intellectual and scholar. Being the author of many works in the fields of bio-bibliography, geography, history and economics, he held reformist opinions and cultivated knowledge of both the classical Islamic tradition in science and culture as well as a relative familiarity with the European literature of his time. KГўtip Г‡elebi was arguably the most important Ottoman intellectual figure of the 17th century.

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