Taşköprüzade
16th c. Ottoman historian
Taşköprüzade Ahmet | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 December 1494 |
| Died | 16 April 1561 |
| Parent | Muṣliḥ al-Dīn Muṣṭafā (father) |
| Family | Taşköprü |
Taşköprüzade or Taşköprülüzade Ahmet (طاشكبري أحمد); variant Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá ibn Khalīl Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah (أحمد بن مصطفى بن خليل طاشكبري) (3 December 1494 – 16 April 1561) was an Ottoman historian-chronicler living during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, who was famous for his great biographic encyclopedia.
Life
The family was known as 'Taşköprülüler' because Ahmet's grandfather had been a professor at the Muzafferiye madrasa of Hayreddin Halil in Taşköprü, Kastamonu. Taşköprülüzade received his first education from his father and uncle Kemaleddin Kasım, in Ankara and Bursa, and completed his studies in Istanbul. He was appointed to Oruç Pasha Madrasah in Dimetoka in 1525, and then to Hacı Hüseyinzade Madrasah in Istanbul. Later, he worked as a professor in various madrasas in Skopje and Edirne. He was appointed qadi (judge) of Bursa in 1545, and of İstanbul in 1551. A sight problem led to an early retirement from public service in 1554, but he continued working on the publication of his writings.[1]
Works
- Al-Shaqāʾiq al-Nuʿmāniyya fī ʿUlamāʾ al-Dawla al-ʿUthmāniyya (Arabic: الشقائق النعمانية في علماء الدولة العثمانية, lit. 'The Anemones, on the Scholars of the Ottoman Era'[2]), a biographical encyclopedia on the life and works of 552 scholars and sheikhs from the first Ottoman ruler, Osman I, to Suleiman the Magnificent, and is the primary source for the lives of scholars and scientists under the reign of Mehmed II.
- Şaka'ikü'n-Nu'maniye fi-Ulemai'd-Devletü'l-Osmaniye (Turkish ed.), or Şakaik-ı Nu'maniye ve zeyilleri (Turkish ed.).[3]
- Key to Happiness and the Lamp of Lordship (Arabic: مفتاح السعادة ومصباح السيادة, romanized: Miftāḥ al-Saʿāda wa-miṣbāḥ al-Siyādah; encyclopedia in Arabic.[4] The great bibliographic encyclopedia Kashf al-Zunun of Kâtip Çelebi enlarged on the Miftāḥ al-Saʿāda, and in turn became the basis of Arabic-Latin and French translations by the European orientalists Gustav Leberecht Flügel and Barthélemy d'Herbelot, published in several volumes with the titles Bibliographical and Encyclopaedic Lexicon and Bibliothèque Orientale respectively.
- Miftâhü’s-Sa‘âde (Arabic), or Misbâh-üs-Siyâde fî Mevduât-ul-Ulûm, (Arabic); treats of the sciences of the period, and the works and writers of each branch.
- Mevzuat ül-Ulum (موضوعات العلوم), or Mevḍuʿât-ül-Ulûm (Turkish ed.), 'Fields of Science';[5] (Turkish ed.); Translation by his son, Kemâleddîn Mehmed Efendi.
- Al-Risālah fī al-Qaḍāʼ wa-al-Qadar (رسالة في القضاء والقدر) (Traité du décret et de l'arrêt divins)[6]
- Osmanlı bilginleri (Istanbul, 2007);[7] Sufi biography.
- Nawādir al-Akhbār fī Manāqib al-Akhyār[citation needed]
See also
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.
- ^ Shaqāʾiq al-Nuʿmāniyya (in Arabic), İstanbul: Edebiyat Fakültesi Basımevi, 1985
- ^ Şakaik-ı Nu'maniye ve zeyilleri (in Turkish and Arabic), İstanbul: Çağrı Yayınları, 1989, OCLC 68576936
- ^ "miftah alsaeadat wamisbah alsiyada" مفتاح السعادة ومصباح السيادة [The key to happiness and the lamp of sovereignty] (in Arabic). 11 November 2000 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Cevdet, Ahmet, ed. (1895), Mawḍū'āt al-'ulūm (in Arabic), Dersaadet
- ^ Abd al-Razzāq al-Qāshānī; Stanislas Guyard, eds. (2008) [1879], Risālah fī al-qaḍāʼ wa-al-qadar (in Arabic), Paris, Kūlūniyā: Maisonneuve, Manshūrāt al-Jamal, OCLC 300716194
- ^ Osmanlı bilginleri, İstanbul: İz Yayıncılık, 2007, ISBN 9789753556057, OCLC 127124162
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Ottoman historians
- Mustafa Âlî
- Lûtfi Pasha
- Matrakçı Nasuh
- Sadeddin Effendi
- Mustafa Selaniki
- Taşköprüzade
- Ali Amiri
- Ahmed Cevdet Pasha
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