Taşköprüzade

Taşköprüzade Ahmet
Taşköprüzade Ahmet
Personal details
Born	3 December 1494
Died	16 April 1561
Parents	Muṣliḥ al-Dīn Muṣṭafā (father)

Taşköprüzade Ahmet (born 1494, died 1561) was an Ottoman historian and chronicler. He was educated in Ankara, Bursa, and Istanbul, after which he began teaching at a medrese in Dimetoka in 1525. In 1527 he was promoted to teaching in Istanbul. He was appointed as the qadi of Istanbul in 1551 and retired from the position in 1554, after which he took to dictating his works.^[1]

Works

Shaqāʾiq al-Nuʿmāniyya fī ʿUlemāʾal-Dawla al-ʿUthmāniyya - a biographical dictionary of Ottoman-era scholars, beginning with the founding of the state and culminating with the scholars of the era of Suleyman I.
Miftāḥ al-Saʿāda
Nawādir al-Akhbār fī Manāqib al-Akhyār

References

↑ Barbara Fleming; Franz Babinger; Christine Woodhead (2009). Bearman, P.; Bianquis, Th.; Bosworth, C.E.; van Donzel, E.; Heinrich, W.P., eds. Ṭas̲h̲köprüzāde. In: Encyclopaedia of Islam (New ed.). Leiden: E.J. Brill. ISBN 9789004161214.

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[1] Barbara Fleming; Franz Babinger; Christine Woodhead (2009). Bearman, P.; Bianquis, Th.; Bosworth, C.E.; van Donzel, E.; Heinrich, W.P., eds. Ṭas̲h̲köprüzāde. In: Encyclopaedia of Islam (New ed.). Leiden: E.J. Brill. ISBN 9789004161214.

Ottoman historians
15th century	Oruc Bey Ashikpashazade Enveri Ibn Kemal Neshri Şükrullah Tursun Beg
16th century	Mustafa Âlî Lûtfi Pasha Matrakchi Nasuh Sadeddin Effendi Mustafa Selaniki Taşköprüzade
17th century	Ibrahim Petchevi Solakzade Mehmed Hemdemi Katib Tchelebi Munejjim Bashi Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed Agha Osman Aga of Temesvar Mustafa Naima
18th century	Ahmed Resmî Efendi
19th century	Ali Amiri Ahmed Cevdet Pasha