--- title: Acem Bekir Efendi slug: acem-bekir-efendi qid: snapshot: enwiki-001379036739 content_hash: license: CC BY-SA 4.0 source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1379036739 tags: [10495951, 10495956, 10592789, 131870228, 22996553, 23118434, 23603337, 596093, 599116, 63676463, 63706482, 65402431] --- # Acem Bekir Efendi > [!note] Provenance > Snapshot `enwiki-001379036739` · content root `…` > Derived from · Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 Abu Bakr ibn Rustam al-Shirvani ( ; 1640s – 12 June 1723), known in Ottoman Turkish sources as Acem Bekir Efendi ("Bekir the Persian") or Şirvanlı Kara Ebubekir Efendi, was an Ottoman bureaucrat and manuscript collector. Born a subject of Safavid Iran, probably in Baku, he left Iran on pilgrimage as a youth, studied in Cairo, and entered Ottoman service in Constantinople under the patronage of the Köprülü family. He served five times as Reis ül-Küttab (chief of scribes) and held senior posts in the financial administration. He was one of the largest private collectors of Arabic manuscripts of his time; more than a thousand manuscripts bearing his ownership notes have been identified in libraries around the world. Abu Bakr ibn Rustam al-Shirvani ( ; 1640s – 12 June 1723), known in Ottoman Turkish sources as Acem Bekir Efendi ("Bekir the Persian") or Şirvanlı Kara Ebubekir Efendi, was an Ottoman bureaucrat and manuscript collector. Born a subject of Safavid Iran, probably in Baku, he left Iran on pilgrimage as a youth, studied in Cairo, and entered Ottoman service in Constantinople under the patronage of the Köprülü family. He served five times as Reis ül-Küttab (chief of scribes) and held senior posts in the financial administration. He was one of the largest private collectors of Arabic manuscripts of his time; more than a thousand manuscripts bearing his ownership notes have been identified in libraries around the world.