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==Life== [[File:Evliya_çelebi'nin_evi_müzesi.JPG|270px|thumb|right|The house of Evliya Çelebi in Kütahya, now used as a museum]] Evliya Çelebi was born in [[Istanbul]] in 1611 to a wealthy family from [[Kütahya]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bruinessen |first1=Martin|author1-link= Martin van Bruinessen|title=Evliya Çelebi's Book of Travels: Evliya Çelebi in Diyarbekir |year=1988 |publisher=Brill |isbn=9004081658 |page=3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fpk3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3}}</ref> 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]].<ref>[[Robert Dankoff]], ''An Ottoman Mentality: The World of Evliya Çelebi'', BRILL, 2004, {{ISBN|978-90-04-13715-8}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=6ZRx2UZOtFkC&pg=PR12 p. xii.]</ref> In his book, Evliya Çelebi traces his paternal genealogy back to [[Ahmad Yasawi]], the earliest known Turkic poet and an early Sufi mystic.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dankoff|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Dankoff|title=An Ottoman Mentality: The World of Evliya Çelebi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6ZRx2UZOtFkC|year=2004|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-13715-7}}, page 21</ref> Evliya Çelebi received a court education from [[Ulama#Ottoman era|the Imperial ''ulama'']] (scholars).<ref name="Jerusalem"/> He may have joined the [[Gulshani]] Sufi order, as he shows an intimate knowledge of their ''[[khanqah]]'' in [[Cairo]], and a graffito exists in which he referred to himself as ''Evliya-yı Gülşenî'' ("Evliya of the Gülşenî").{{Citation needed|date=October 2010}} A devout Muslim opposed to fanaticism, Evliya could [[Hafiz (Quran)|recite the Quran from memory]] and joked freely about Islam. Though employed as a clergyman and entertainer at the Imperial Court of Sultan [[Murad IV]], Evliya refused employment that would keep him from travelling.<ref name="Jerusalem">''[[Jerusalem: The Biography]]'', page 303-304, [[Simon Sebag Montefiore]], Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011. {{ISBN|978-0-297-85265-0}}</ref><ref name="farmer">{{cite journal |last1=Farmer |first1=Henry George|author-link=Henry George Farmer |title=Turkish Instruments of Music in the Seventeenth Century |journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society |date=1936}}</ref> Çelebi had studied vocal and instrumental music as a pupil of a renowned [[Khalwati order|Khalwati]] [[dervish]] by the name of 'Umar Gulshani, and his musical gifts earned him much favor at the Imperial Palace, impressing even the chief musician Amir Guna. He was also trained in the theory of music called {{lang|ota|ilm al-musiqi}}.<ref name=farmer/> His journal-writing began in Istanbul, with the taking of notes on buildings, markets, customs and culture, and in 1640 it was augmented with accounts of his travels beyond the confines of the city. The collected notes of his travels form a ten-volume work called the ''Seyahâtname'' ("Travelogue"). Departing from the Ottoman literary convention of the time, he wrote in a mixture of vernacular and high Turkish, with the effect that the Seyahatname has remained a popular and accessible reference work about life in the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=HALASI-KUN|first=TIBOR|date=1979|title=Evliya Çelebi as Linguist|journal=Harvard Ukrainian Studies}}</ref> including two chapters on [[Ottoman classical music#Musical instruments|musical instruments]].<ref name=farmer/> Evliya Çelebi died in 1684,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Evliya-Celebi|title=Evliya Celebi {{!}} Turkish traveler and writer|work=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=2017-10-21|language=en}}</ref> it is unclear whether he was in Istanbul or Cairo at the time.
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