![]() The door was opened and the light-filled mosque was crowded with a luminous congregation, who were busy performing the dawn prayer. This humble one saw myself in the Ahi Çelebi mosque, near the Yemiş landing - a mosque built with money lawfully acquired, an ancient mosque where prayers are accepted by God. 10, 1630), in a state twixt sleep and wake, that I had a dream. It was the night of Ashura in the month of Muharram, the year 1040 (Aug. He narrated this dream: "I lay down on the pillow of lamentation, in the corner of my hovel, in my birthplace Istanbul, to a sleep of wish fulfillment. One night when he was at his home, he dreamt he was at the mosque, meeting the Prophet Muhammad, which is interpreted as a good omen. According to this story, he used to go to the Ahi Çelebi Mosque, which was close to his family house, from time to time. With a nice story, Evliya Çelebi describes how he came to start traveling around the world. Evliya, the Arabic word used to indicate Islamic saints, is the title which was probably given to him to refer to his mastery. His father Derviş Mehmed Zilli was a jeweler of the Ottoman palace. Even the travel books of Italian Marco Polo and Moroccan Ibn Battuta, who are the most famous travelers in the world, are not as important as Evliya Çelebi's work.Įvliya Çelebi was born in Unkapanı, Istanbul in 1611. One can learn the history, culture, folk and architecture of a geography of 45 states from this unique work. The book is a masterpiece of Turkish prose. ![]() Even if most people know the 17th-century Turkish writer and wanderer Evliya Çelebi, there are few who appreciate the real value of his "Seyahatname" ("Books of Travels") which is the one of greatest and most important travel books written in the history of literature.
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