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

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

Ottoman historians

15th century	Oruç Bey Aşıkpaşazade Enveri Ibn Kemal Neşri Şükrullah Tursun Bey

16th century	Mustafa Âlî Lûtfi Paşa Matrakçı Nasuh Hoca Sadeddin Efendi Mustafa Selaniki

17th century	İbrahim Peçevi Solakzade Mehmed Hemdemi Kâtip Çelebi Münejjim Bashi Silahdar Fındklılı Mehmed Ağa Osman Aga of Temesvar Mustafa Naima

18th century	Ahmed Resmî Efendi

19th century	Ali Amiri Ahmed Cevdet Pasha

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