Mustafa Âlî

Gelibolulu Mustafa Âlî bin Ahmed bin Abdülmevlâ Çelebi (born 1541 Gallipoli; died 1600 in Jeddah) was an Ottoman historian and bureaucrat, possibly of Croatian or Bosnian origin.^[1] He was a major literary figure of the second half of the sixteenth century, producing innumerable works. He is most famous for his immense work of world history, entitled Künhü'l-aḫbār ("The Essence of History"), covering the period from the creation of the world to the year 1000 of the Islamic calendar (1591/2 AD).^[2] He also wrote poetry as well as a work of nasihatname literature entitled Nuṣḥatü's-selāṭīn (Counsel for Sultans).

References

↑ Fleischer, Cornell (1986). Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: The Historian Mustafa Âli, 1541-1600. Princeton: Princeton University Press. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-59740-462-4.
↑ Fleischer, Cornell (1986). Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: The Historian Mustafa Âli, 1541-1600. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 7–8. ISBN 978-1-59740-462-4.

Bibliography

Fleischer, Cornell (1986). Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: The Historian Mustafa Âli, 1541-1600. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-59740-462-4.

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