ABSTRACT

Evliya Celebi describes a group of Kelafis tribe appears in the Seyahatname. There Evliya says that Kor Huseyin Kan is from the tribe of Kelafis Arabs near Aswan. This place is covered with black stones; there are many caves here and the people live in them. The people eat the crocodile and have sex with it. Bosayley Chater considers the name Kelafis, which Evliya gives as the name of a tribe, to be the same as that of a modern place name, Kalabsha. This may be correct, but Bosayley does not clearly identify which Kalabsha he intends: Today there is a place in southern Egypt called Kalabsha four kilometers south of the town of al-Madiq, not far from a place called Abu Hor. The Temple of Kalabshawas found there. During the construction of the Aswan High Dam in the years 1961-63, the temple was disassembled and moved further away. Ancient Kalabsha remains under Lake Nasser.