Şükrullah

Şükrullah
Title Şükrullah
Born 1388
Died 1488
Era Ottoman Empire
Religion Islam
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 a 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

  1. ↑ The Oxford History of Historical Writing 3: 1400-1800, José Rabasa,D. Daniel R. Woolf, p. 196, 2012
  2. ↑ The Oxford History of Historical Writing 3: 1400-1800, José Rabasa,D. Daniel R. Woolf, p. 196, 2012



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