Later he took part in the Battle of Crete. For eight months he lay ill in the convent of Kelgra. On his voyage back to Istanbul his ship encountered a fierce storm and was wrecked. In 1641, he took part in the famous Battle of Azak and thence went to Crimea with the Khan of Crimea. From there he went to Georgia in Russia, Merhilistan and the land of the Abaza. He went to Trabzon with Ketenci Omer Pasha when the latter was appointed the governor of that province. This enlightened citizen of Istanbul accepted only assignments that involved travel and not for their importance. Instead of an office, which he could easily attain through his influential relatives and friends, he devoted his life to travel to distant lands, to the desire to see the whole world, acquaint himself with everybody and learn everything. Though the son of a father who had lived in court and had close relations with the Sultan and eminent statesmen and a mother who was related to the pashas of the period, he was never to succumb to the wish for mundane wealth and position. In that year too he made a sea voyage to Izmit. In the year 1640, he traveled to Bursa for the first time. He found his way to the court of eminent men he sat and listened in the coffee-shops and wine shops to storytellers and convents. Step by step, he saw the whole of Istanbul until there remained nothing he had not seen nor anyone he had not talked with. He made these very picturesque by adding his own thoughts for his imagination was as strong as his passion.
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He sought the interpretation of his dream from many a learned man of the age and gave himself up to ruminating on “how can I free myself from the burden of father, mother, master, brother and see the world?”.įirst, he wandered through Istanbul as, in his own words, a “vagabond pedestrian” and started recording his first impressions.
Oh envoy of God), he said, “Seyahat ya Rasulullah” (grant me travel, Oh envoy of God). One night he dreamt of the Prophet and instead of saying “Sefaat ya Rasulullah” (intercede on my behalf. “Through heredity, many an adventure and experience was passed to your humble servant from his grandfather and father”, he writes in an explanation of his curiosity. He listened to many an adventurous story from his father, a man of long years and experience who had served many sultans from Suleyman the Magnificent to Ibrahim, and these, coupled with the things he heard from their numerous guests, lit in him the passion for foreign lands. In Completion of his elementary education, Evliya entered a Medrese (religious school) and, while trying to master the art of jewelry from his father, he learned Greek from his father’s apprentice to whom in turn he taught the Shahidi vocabulary.
This world-famous traveler was called Evliya after Imam-i Sultani Evliya Mehmet Efendi, a famous personage of that age, a close friend of Dervis Mehmet Aga and later a tutor to our traveler.Ĭelebi likes to describe himself as “Seyyah-i alem ve Nedim-i beni adem Evliya-yi bi-riya”.
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His full name is that of his father, Evliya bin Dervis Mehmet Zilli. His mother was related to one of the famous pashas of the age, Melek Ahmet Pasha. He undertook the decoration of the famous Mosque of Sultan Ahmet in Istanbul and was sent to Mecca to make Mihrap during the reign of Sultan Ahmet I. Mehmet Aga was an artist and a man of agreeable temperament. He was over seventy-five and in his words “a grand old, man”. His father, Mehmet Aga (Dervis Muhammed Zilli), had taken part in the conquest of Cyprus during the reign of Sultan Selim II, had presented the keys of Famagusta to the Sultan and had risen to the post of a chief jeweler in the palace. He says he slipped out of every difficulty in his adventurous life with ease because of the goodwill of the seventy friends of his father who had been at their home on the night of his birth. Evliya Celebi was born on the 25th of February 1611 in Istanbul.
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