Tursun Beg

Tursun Beg (Turkish: Tursun Bey; probably born in mid-1420s in Edirne)^[1] was an 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] He worked in the imperial 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

• List of Muslim historians

References

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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

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