![]() The collected notes of his travels form a ten-volume work called the Seyahatname ("Travelogue"). His journal-writing began in Constantinople, 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. ![]() He was also trained in the theory of music called ilm al-musiqi. Çelebi had studied vocal and instrumental music as a pupil of a renowned 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. Though employed as a clergyman and entertainer at the Imperial Court of Sultan Murad IV Evliya refused employment that would keep him from travelling. Ī devout Muslim opposed to fanaticism, Evliya could recite the Quran from memory and joked freely about Islam. 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"). Evliya Çelebi received a court education from the Imperial ulama (scholars). ![]() In his book, Evliya Çelebi traces his paternal genealogy back to Ahmad Yasawi, an early Sufi mystic. Both his parents were attached to the Ottoman court, his father, Derviş Mehmed Zilli, as a jeweller, and his mother as an Abkhazian relation of the grand vizier Melek Ahmed Pasha. The house of Evliya Çelebi in Kütahya, now used as a museumĮvliya Çelebi was born in Constantinople in 1611 to a wealthy family from Kütahya.
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