AN IMPORTANT PORTRAIT AS PRESENTED BY EVLİYA ÇELEBİ: ABDAL KHAN OF BİTLİS

This articles aims at investigating abdal khan, khan of bitlis, whose life was detailed in the travelbook of evliya çelebi. i primarily summarized evliya’s narrative of abdal khan and then focused on khan’s personal characteristics, skills and his political and cultural portrait in general. i dealt with the khan who was a very important figure in many terms along with perceptions of him in evliya çelebi. evliya’s narrative of abdal khan is not a simple biography of him but also a historical-literary device for an understanding of local politics and dynamics of the region.