Ottoman historian (c. 1420 – 1499)
Tursun Beg
Title Tursun Beg Born c. 1420 Died 1499 Era Ottoman Empire Main interest(s) Ottoman history Notable work(s) "Tarih-i Ebülfeth" ("The History of the Conqueror") Religion Islam
Tursun Beg (Turkish : Tursun Bey ; probably born in mid-1420s in Edirne )[ 1] Ottoman bureaucrat and historian who wrote a chronicle dedicated to Mehmed II .
Tursun Beg's life is only known from references in his chronicle. He came from a prominent timariot family and held a timar himself.[ 1] divan and accompanied Mehmed II during the siege of Constantinople in 1453 that led to the fall of Constantinople .[ 1]
Tursun Beg's only known work is the Tarih-i Ebülfeth (تاريخ ابو الفتح in Ottoman; "The History of the Conqueror").
Bibliography
Tursun Beg. The history of Mehmed the Conqueror . [Tarih-i Ebülfeth] Halil Inalcik and Rhoads Murphey trans. Minneapolis: Bibliotheca Islamica, 1978.
Woodhead, Christine. "Tursun Beg." Encyclopaedia of Islam . 2nd Edition.
See also
References
^ a b c Woodhead, Christine. "Ṭūrsūn Beg." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill, 2011.
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