Gelibolulu Mustafa Alî

Gelibolulu Mustafa Âlî ( Gelibolulu Mustafa Âlî bin Ahmed bin Abdülmevlâ Çelebi , born on the night of April 25, 1541 in Gallipoli ; died in 1600 in Jeddah ) was an Ottoman historian and administrative officer of Croatian descent. He lived as a Dīwān writer first in Aleppo and later in Damascus and then followed Lala Mustafa Pasha to Cairo, where he wrote a description of the city. He wrote the first known biography of Ahmed Bican Yazıcıoğlu , the author of an Ottoman cosmography . He was also known as the author of Masnawī double verses in the Ottoman-Turkish language (Tuhfetü'l-uşşâk) about famous Islamic mystics ( Sufis ) based on the model of Nezāmis . He is the author of a prince's mirror (Naṣīḥat-nāme) .

Works

• Künhü'l-aḫbār
• Naṣīḥat al-salāṭīn. English / Turkish Edition: Mustafā Ali's counsel for sultans of 1581. 2 vols. Edited, translated and annotated by Andreas Tietze. Vienna: Verlag der Österr. Akad. D. Wiss., 1979 and 1982. ISBN 978-3-7001-0518-3 .
• Furṣat-nāme. Rana von Mende: Muṣṭafā ʿĀlī's Furṣat-nāme: Edition and processing of a source on the history of the Persian campaign under Sinān Paša 1580 - 1581. Islamic studies; Bd. 135. Berlin, Schwarz Verlag, 1986, ISBN 978-3-922968-90-0
• Ḥālāt al-Qāhira min al-ʿādāt aẓ-ẓāhira. Andreas Tietze (ed.): Muṣṭafā ʿĀlī's description of Cairo of 1599: Text, transliteration, translation, notes. Vienna: Verlag der Österr. Akad. D. Wiss., 1975, ISBN 978-3-7001-0119-2
• Tuhfetü'l-uşşâk. İ. Hakkı Aksoyak (ed.), Istanbul, TC Millī Eğitim Bakanliği, 2003

literature

• Nihal Atsız : Âlî, Mustafa . In: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . Vol. 1. Munich 1974, p. 52 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cornell Fleischer: Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: The Historian Mustafa Âli (1541-1600) . Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1986, ISBN 978-1-59740-202-6 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).