Editing Evliya Çelebi (section)

==== Syria and Palestine ====
In contrast to many European and some Jewish travelogues of Syria and Palestine in the 17th century, Çelebi wrote one of the few detailed travelogues from an Islamic point of view.<ref name=BenNaeh>{{cite journal|author = Ben-Naeh | title = "Thousands great saints": Evliya Çelebi in Ottoman Palestine | journal = Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History | issue = 6 | year = 2013 | url = http://www.quest-cdecjournal.it/focus.php?id=337}}</ref> Çelebi visited Palestine twice, once in 1649 and once in 1670–1.  An English translation of the first part, with some passages from the second, was published in 1935–1940 by the self-taught Palestinian scholar [[Stephan Hanna Stephan]] who worked for the [[Department of Antiquities (Mandatory Palestine)|Palestine Department of Antiquities]].<ref>{{cite journal | title = Archaeology as Cultural Survival: The Future of the Palestinian Past | author = Albert Glock| author-link = Albert Glock| journal = Journal of Palestine Studies | volume = 23 | issue = 3 | year = 1994 | pages = 70–84 | doi=10.1525/jps.1994.23.3.00p0027n}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | author = St. H. Stephan|author-link=Stephan Hanna Stephan | journal = The Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine | year = 1935–1942 | title = Evliya Tshelebi's Travels in Palestine}}. Part 1: Vol 4 (1935) [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.56294/2015.56294.Quarterly-Of-The-Department-Of-Antiquities-In-Palestine-Vol4#page/n205/mode/1up 103]–108; Part 2: Vol 4 (1935) [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.56294/2015.56294.Quarterly-Of-The-Department-Of-Antiquities-In-Palestine-Vol4#page/n286/mode/1up 154]–164; Part 3: Vol 5 (1936) 69–73; Part 4: Vol 6 (1937) 84–97; Part 5: Vol 8 (1939) 137–156. Part 6: Vol 9 (1942) 81–104.</ref> Significant are the many references to Palestine, or "Land of Palestine", and Evliya notes, "All chronicles call this country Palestine."<ref name=Irving>* {{cite journal|url=https://era.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1842/31179/Irving2018.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|title=Intellectual networks, language and knowledge under colonialism: the work of Stephan Stephan, Elias Haddad and Tawfiq Canaan in Palestine, 1909-1948|year=2017|publisher=University of Eidenburgh|journal=Literatures, Languages and Cultures PhD Thesis Collection|author=Sarah R. Irving|page=19}}</ref>