Tursun Beg
Tursun Beg (Tursun Bey; probably born in mid-1420s in Edirne) 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. He worked in the imperial divan and accompanied Mehmed II during the siege of Constantinople in 1453 that led to the fall of Constantinople.
Tursun Beg
- Name
- Tursun Beg
- Born
- c. 1420
- Died
- 1499
- Nationality
- Ottoman Empire
- Occupation
- writer
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Tursun Beg (Tursun Bey; probably born in mid-1420s in Edirne) 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. He worked in the imperial divan and accompanied Mehmed II during the siege of Constantinople in 1453 that led to the fall of Constantinople.
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Only known work is the Tarih-i Ebülfeth (تاريخ ابو الفتح in Ottoman; "The History of the Conqueror").
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• Religion — Islam • Era — Ottoman Empire • Name — Tursun Beg • Title — Tursun Beg • Born — c. 1420 • Died — 1499 • Main Interests — Ottoman history • Notable Works — "Tarih-i Ebülfeth" ("The History of the Conqueror") Tursun Beg (Tursun Bey; probably born in mid-1420s in Edirne) 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. He worked in the imperial divan and accompanied Mehmed II during the siege of Constantinople in 1453 that led to the fall of Constantinople. Tursun Beg's only known work is the Tarih-i Ebülfeth (تاريخ ابو الفتح in Ottoman; "The History of the Conqueror").
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- 1.Woodhead, Christine. "Ṭūrsūn Beg." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill, 2011.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- 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.
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