Şükrullah

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.

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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