Şükrullah

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Ottoman historian Şükrullah
Title	Şükrullah
Born	1388
Died	1488
Era	Ottoman Empire
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 an 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, page 196, 2012
↑ The Oxford History of Historical Writing 3: 1400-1800, José Rabasa,D. Daniel R. Woolf, page 196, 2012

Persondata
Name	Sukrullah
Alternative names
Short description	Ottoman historian
Date of birth	1388
Place of birth
Date of death	1488
Place of death

v t e Ottoman historians

15th century	Oruc Bey Aşıkpaşazade Enveri Ibn Kemal Neşri Şükrullah Tursun Beg

16th century	Mustafa Âlî Lutfi Pasha Matrakçı Nasuh İbrahim Peçevi Hoca Sadeddin Efendi Mustafa Selaniki

17th century	Müneccimbaşı Ahmed Dede Katip Çelebi Mustafa Naima Osman Aga of Temesvar Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed Aga Solakzade Mehmed Hemdemi

18th century	Ahmed Resmî Efendi

19th century	Ali Amiri (Turkish historian) Ahmet Cevdet Pasha

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