Evliya Çelebi
Seyahatname — the Ottoman Herodotus
The greatest travel writer of the Islamic world. His ten-volume Seyahatname records forty years of journeys across the Ottoman Empire and beyond with an eye for detail and a gift for storytelling that make him the Ottoman Herodotus.
Key works
- Seyahatname (Book of Travels)~1640-1682— Ten volumes — the Ottoman world in vivid, encyclopedic detail