Career
He worked as a finance official and used his assignments to different towns to transcribe Arabic and Turkish inscriptions that he foundation He sought out local histories and old documents, both historical and poetic. Through his endeavours he built a library of rare and unpublished manuscripts.
These manuscripts augmented the National Library of Istanbul.
Although he was known as an editor he did write historical and literary works. He was a key figure in the classification of the archives of the Sublime Porte in Istanbul, giving his name to one of the catalogues, Ali Emiri tasnifi.