Editing Evliya Çelebi (section)

==Seyahatnâme==
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He wrote one of history's longest and most ambitious accounts of travel writing in any language, the ''Seyahatnâme''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Darke |first=Diana |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zsGHEAAAQBAJ |title=The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy |publisher=Thames & Hudson |year=2022 |isbn=978-0-500-77753-4 |pages=146 |language=en}}</ref> Although many of the descriptions in the ''Seyahatnâme'' were written in an exaggerated manner or were plainly inventive fiction or third-source misinterpretation, his notes remain a useful guide to the culture and lifestyles of the 17th century Ottoman Empire.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Evliya-Celebi|title=Evliya Celebi {{!}} Turkish traveler and writer|work=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=2017-10-19|language=en}}</ref> The first volume deals exclusively with Istanbul, the final volume with Egypt.

Currently there is no English translation of the entire ''Seyahatnâme'', although there are translations of various parts. The longest single English translation was published in 1834 by [[Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall]], an Austrian orientalist: it may be found under the name "Evliya Efendi."  Von Hammer-Purgstall's work covers the first two volumes  (Istanbul and [[Anatolia]])  but its language is antiquated.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Finkel |first1=Caroline|author-link= Caroline Finkel|title=Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall's English Translation of the First Books of Evliya Celebi's Seyahâtname (Book of Travels) |journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society |date=2015 |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=41–55 |doi=10.1017/S1356186314000108 |s2cid=163025559 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279329471}}</ref> Other translations include Erich Prokosch's nearly complete translation into German of the tenth volume, the 2004 introductory work entitled ''The World of Evliya Çelebi: An Ottoman Mentality'' written by [[Robert Dankoff]], and Dankoff and Sooyong Kim's 2010 translation of select excerpts of the ten volumes, ''An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Çelebi''.

Evliya is noted for having collected samples of the languages in each region he traveled in. There are some 30 Turkic dialects and languages cataloged in the ''Seyahatnâme''. Çelebi notes the similarities between several words from the [[German language|German]] and [[Persian language|Persian]], though he denies any common Indo-European heritage. The ''Seyahatnâme'' also contains the first transcriptions of many [[languages of the Caucasus]] and [[Tsakonian language|Tsakonian]], and the only extant specimens of written [[Ubykh language|Ubykh]] outside the linguistic literature. He also wrote in detail about [[Arabian horses]] and their different strains.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Evliya Çelebi Ride And Way Project, Turkey |url=http://www.waho.org/the-evliya-celebi-ride-and-way-project-turkey/ |access-date=2023-03-13 |language=en-US}}</ref>

In the 10 volumes of his ''Seyahatnâme'', he describes the following journeys:{{cn|date=February 2023}}

# Constantinople and surrounding areas (1630)
# [[Anatolia]], the [[Caucasus]], [[Crete]] and [[Azerbaijan]] (1640)
# [[Syria]], [[History of Palestine#Ottoman period|Palestine]], [[Armenia]] and [[Rumelia]] (1648)
# [[Kurdistan]], [[Iraq]], and [[Iran]] (1655)
# [[Russia]] and the [[Balkans]] (1656)
# Military Campaigns in [[Hungary]] during the [[Austro-Turkish War (1663–64)|fourth Austro-Turkish War]] (1663/64)
# [[Austria]], the [[Crimea]], and the Caucasus for the second time (1664)
# [[Greece]] and then the Crimea and Rumelia for the second time (1667–1670)
# the [[Hajj]] to [[Mecca]] (1671)
# [[Egypt Eyalet|Egypt]] and the [[Sudan]] (1672)