Şükrullah

Şükrullah
Şükrullah
Title	Şükrullah
Personal life
Born	1388
Died	1488
Era	Ottoman Empire
Main interest(s)	Ottoman history
Notable work(s)	"Bahjat al—tawari'kh" ("Joy of Histories")

Şükrullah (1388-1488) was a 15th-century Ottoman historian and diplomat.^[1] He was born in 1388 in Amasya and died in Constantinople and is one of the earliest Ottoman historians. He wrote an famous universal history in the 1460s Persian language named Bahjat al—tawari'kh [Joy of Histories] and presented it to Mahmud Pasha Angelovic.^[2] His work was used by later Ottoman historians.

References

^ The Oxford History of Historical Writing 3: 1400-1800, José Rabasa,D. Daniel R. Woolf, page 196, 2012
^ The Oxford History of Historical Writing 3: 1400-1800, José Rabasa,D. Daniel R. Woolf, page 196, 2012

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[1] The Oxford History of Historical Writing 3: 1400-1800, José Rabasa,D. Daniel R. Woolf, page 196, 2012

[2] The Oxford History of Historical Writing 3: 1400-1800, José Rabasa,D. Daniel R. Woolf, page 196, 2012

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v t e Ottoman historians
15th century	Oruç Bey Aşıkpaşazade Enveri Ibn Kemal Neshri Şükrullah Tursun Beg
16th century	Mustafa Âlî Lûtfi Pasha Matrakçı Nasuh Sadeddin Effendi Mustafa Selaniki Taşköprüzade
17th century	Ibrahim Petchevi Solakzade Mehmed Hemdemi Kâtip Çelebi Munejjim Bashi Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed Agha Osman Aga of Temesvar Mustafa Naima Al-Hasan al-Burini
18th century	Ahmed Resmî Efendi
19th century	Ali Amiri Ahmed Cevdet Pasha