Ibn-i Kemal

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Ibn-i Kemal (* 1468 ; † April 16, 1534 ; also called with Persian patronymic Kemal-Paşa-zâde , both in German "Son of Kemal-Pascha"; real name Şemseddin Ahmed Efendi ) was an Ottoman scholar and historiographer. He wrote a multi-volume "History of the House of Osman" ( Tevârîh-i Âl-i Osmân ), only a part of which is available as a translation.

Life

Ibn-i Kemal's father was Suleyman Bey. According to tradition, he was muhafız (garrison commander) of Amasya and sancak beyi (governor) of Tokat. His mother was the sister of an army judge ( kazı'asker ) under Mehmed II. Ibn-i Kemal started out as a Sipahi , then turned to Islamic law.

Ibn-i Kemal was Şeyhülislam (Ottoman: شيخ الإسلام) from 1515 to 1533. His honored teacher was the professor at the Muradiye in Bursa , Lutfullah Sinan Efendi, called Mevlâna Lutfi-i Divane (Eng. “His Eminence Lutfi the Fool”, because of his sharp, critical joke), who fell victim to a colleague intrigue. A legal opinion ( fatwa , Arabic فتوى) of his enemy, the Mufti ( Arabic المفتي, مفت) Hatibzade Ibrahim, led to the sentencing and execution in 1494. Ibn-i Kemal did not note this event (out of piety, as Kreutel assumes) in his chronicle. He was inspired for this work by Mevlâna Abdurrahman Çelebi (1456–1516), called Mü'eyyedzade, a scholar and military judge ( kazı'asker ) of Anatolia under Bayezid II and Selim I Ibn-i Kemal is considered an important chronicler by literary historians and expert in the highly literary writing style influenced by Persian scripts at the Sultan's court . In the older chronicles he used for his work, such as B. that of Oruç , he has masterfully improved the simple style of his models.

Ibn Kemal in Istanbul at the Martyrs Cemetery Edirnekapı şehitlığı buried mezarlığı in part Necatibey. Edirnekapı is the gateway to the road to Edirne / Adrianople in the great city wall of Constantinople .

literature

  • Richard Franz Kreutel (translator): The pious Sultan Bayezid. The history of his reign [1481-1512] according to the old Ottoman chronicles of Oruç and Anonymus Hanivaldanus . (= Ottoman historians. Volume 9), Verlag Styria, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1978, ISBN 3-222-10469-7 .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kemal-Paşa-zâde: Kemalpaşazade Tarihi. Millet-Kütüphanesi (Library), Ali Emiri, Istanbul.
  2. ^ Richard Franz Kreutel (translator): The pious Sultan Bayezid. The history of his reign [1481-1512] according to the old Ottoman chronicles of Oruç and Anonymus Hanivaldanus. (= Ottoman historians. Volume 9), Verlag Styria, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1978, ISBN 3-222-10469-7 , pp. 28, 79, 166.
personal data
SURNAME Ibn-i Kemal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kemal-Paşa-zâde; Şemseddin Ahmed (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ottoman Şeyhülislam and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1468
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1534