Gelibolulu

Gallipoli

The Gallipoli peninsula is located in Turkish Thrace , the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles straits to the east. Gallipoli derives its name from the Greek "Καλλίπολις" , meaning "Beautiful City"...

 Mustafa Âlî bin Ahmed bin Abdülmevlâ Çelebi

Çelebi (disambiguation)

Çelebi is a traditional Turkish honorific, used in the Ottoman period after the given name of a male person and roughly meaning "gentleman", originally indicating nobility but later generalized to well-bred educated men.It may also refer to:-People:*Asaf Halet Çelebi , 20th century...

(born 1541 Gallipoli; died 1600 in Jeddah) was an Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 historian and bureaucrat of Croatian ancestry. He wrote the earliest known biography of Ahmed Bican

Ahmed Bican

Ahmed Bican Yazıcıoğlu was an Ottoman author most noted for his Dürr-i Meknûn.-Biography:Little is known of Yazıcıoğlu's life. His earliest biography was written by Mustafa Âlî. Yazıcıoğlu came from a literary family...

. He also wrote poetry and essays on religious and other subjects. Prof. Cornell Fleischer

Cornell Fleischer

Cornell Fleischer is the Kanuni Suleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies at the University of Chicago.Dr. Fleischer received his PhD from Princeton University in 1982. After leaving Princeton, Dr. Fleischer held teaching posts at Washington University in St. Louis and the Ohio...

's biography of Mustafa Âlî in one of the most famous works in contemporary Ottoman studies.