Hacı Ali

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Hacı Ali , also Haji Ali (*?; † 2nd half of the 17th century) was an Ottoman civil servant and chronicler.

Life

Very little is known about the life of Hacı Ali. He was secretary ( kâtib ) in Egypt during the tenure of governor Sarı Tarhûncu Ahmed Paşa († 1652). In 1649 he was commissioned to translate an Arabic work on Yemen . In another writing he described his experiences and experiences on the Hajj to Mecca (1663–1664). As secretary of the Sultan's court ( divan-i hümayun kâtibi ) he wrote a diary ( ruzname ) in 1672 about the campaign against Poles and the Cossacks .

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Description of Yemen

In 1649, on behalf of the governor of Egypt, Hacı Ali translated an Arabic description of Yemen from Qutb ad-din Muhammad b. Ahmad, titled Barq al-Yamani fi 'l-Fath al-'Uthmani , into Ottoman under the title Ahbarü'l-Yemani (“Description of Yemen”). In addition to a direct translation of the Arabic text, this work also contains additional chapters of its own. The original text ends e.g. B. with the battle of Dalq al-Wadi ( La Goulette in Tunisia ) in 1574 by Koca Sinan Paşa († 1596), Hacı Ali extended this historical section into his time.

The work consists of an introduction, five main sections and a summary. In the introduction, Hacı Ali explains the reason for his translation and the changes made. In the first section (15 chapters) he gives an overview of the history of Yemen and the local tribal leaders up to the Ottoman invasion. The second section (36 chapters) explains the invasion of the Ottomans, the third (60 chapters) deals with the campaign of Koca Sinan Paşa and the fourth (11 chapters) names the Ottoman viziers and governors-general of Yemen from Sinan Paşa to Haydar Paşa. In the fifth section (5 chapters) he names the reasons for the uprisings of the Yemeni tribal princes and imams and in the summary he describes and explains, among other things, the interruption of Ottoman rule from 1620 to 1621.

Manuscript Ahbarü'l-Yemani in the Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi 886. (library), Hamidiye
processing in 1668 by Mustafa bin Ibrahim, with comments ( serh provided).
Edited in 1671 by Mustafa bin Rızvan, who added the commentaries to the text and changed the title to Telhisü'l-barkü'l-Yemani (“Summary of the Description of Yemen”) (Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Hamidiye 921).

News from the pilgrims

From 1663 to 1664, Hacı Ali traveled on his Hajj in the Hejaz . In Tuhfetü'l-Hüccac (“News of the Pilgrims”) he describes his observations and travel stops in an introduction and six chapters.

A copy of the manuscript can be found in the Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Esad Efendi 386/6.

The capture of Kamianets-Podilskyi

Fethname-i Kamaniçe (“The Conquest of Kamianets-Podilskyj ”) is a campaign diary of the Ottoman-Polish War of 1672 . The diary can be divided into four chapters: the introduction, the report on the train to Kamaniçe, an assessment of the war and a critical examination of the withdrawal.

In the introduction, Hacı Ali summarizes the political situation in 1671 and 1672, the conflict between Poles and Ottomans over the rule over the Cossack area, the winter campaign of Halil Paşas († 1685), the commander of Özü ( Otschakiw ), around the hetman Petro Doroshenko († 1676) to bring help. In the following chapters he describes the military preparations for the war, lists the provincial troops from Anatolia and Rumelia and reports on the sultan's preacher ( saltanat va c izi ) Vani Mehmed Efendi († 1687), who led the troops in Bursa Speech should inspire. Sultan Mehmed IV joined Edirne 's army, but the departure was delayed by 27 days because of the ruler's passion for hunting. Hacı Ali gives a detailed description of the approach and the crossing of the Danube and the Prut , where the Sultan is holding a parade of troops. Troops from the Principality of Wallachia and the Khanate of Crimea join the army, which is now marching to Kamaniçe. After the fortress was taken, the (pre-) peace of Bucaş ( Butschatsch ) was concluded between the Ottomans and Poland.

The chronicler names all stations ( menzil ) of the campaign, the sultan's hunting trips, road conditions and weather, provisions for the army, even the gifts given to dignitaries and the wages paid to the soldiers. He provides a detailed report on a military operation of the Ottomans in the 17th century.

The manuscript of Fethname-i Kamaniçe is in the library of the Suleymaniye Mosque , Lala Ismail Efendi, no.308.

See also

literature

  • Mustafa Türkmen: Hācī 'Alī , August 2005. In: C.Kafadar / H.Karateke / C.Fleischer: Historians of the Ottoman Empire. Harvard University. Center for Middle Eastern Studies, ISBN 9780-9762-7270-0 , pp. 97-99. [1]
  • Franz Babinger : The historians of the Ottomans and their works. Leipzig 1927.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Babinger: The historians of the Ottomans and their works. Leipzig 1927, p. 47.
  2. ↑ Hulisi Yavuz: Yemen'de Ottoman Idaresi ve Tarihi Rumuzi. Vol. I, Ankara 2003, chap. XXII.
personal data
SURNAME Hacı Ali
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haci Ali; Hajji Ali
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Writer and chronicler
DATE OF BIRTH before 1649
DATE OF DEATH after 1672