Neşri

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Neşrî ( Ottoman نشرى İA Neşrī ; died before 1520) was an Ottoman historian.

Life

Neşrî's elaboration Cihânnümâ ( Eng . “Weltenschau”) is an important milestone in the development of Ottoman historiography. Very little is known with certainty about the author, except his stage name Neşrî. Later historians such as Latîfî , Âşık Çelebi , Ali Çelebi , Kâtib Çelebi give scanty information about him. Accordingly his name was Mehmed, lived mainly in Bursa and belonged to the teaching staff of the Sultaniye madrasah . His references in the Cihânnümâ to Bursa indicate that Bursa could have been his place of residence. His academic writing style suggests that he is an ulema, a scholar, was. However, contemporary sources confirm neither his place of residence nor his profession. It is unclear whether he is identical to a Neşrî Hüseyin bin Eyne Beğ recorded in court documents in Bursa in 1479 . According to the explicitly personal information in his Cihânnümâ, it is clear that he was at the Ottoman court at the time of the death of Sultan Mehmed II in 1481. His descriptions of the Janissary uprising are based on his observations.

Cihânnümâ

The جهان نما Cihânnümâ , German 'world atlas' , Neşrîs is said to have consisted of six parts, of which only the last part is available today. The Cihânnümâ sees itself as a work dealing with universal history. The part of Cihânnümâ that still exists today consists of an introduction and three chapters dealing with the Turkish Oghuz , the Seljuk dynasty and the Ottoman dynasty . What follows is a record of events up to the year of the conquest of Ak Kerman by Sultan Bayezid II (1485). Neşrî concludes his work with a list of the viziers and saints in the Ottoman period and the dedication speech of his work to Sultan Bayezid II.

The language of Cihânnümâ is straightforward prose style . It was probably written between 1487 and February 1493. Neşrîs sources were studies show Aşıkpaşazade , a Takvim (chronological list) from the 15th century and an anonymous chronicle of the 15th century. The cihânnümâ itself became a source for later historians such as B. İdris-i Bitlisî , Sadeddin , Müneccimbaşı , Solakzade , Johannes Löwenklaus Historiae Musulmanae Turcorum (Frankfurt 1591) and is therefore considered an influential source on early Ottoman history.

The Cihânnümâ was published twice: Franz Taeschner published it in 1951 and 1955 as a facsimile , Faik Reşit Unat and Mehmet Altay Köymen published it in Turkish Latin script in 1949 and 1957.

Publications

  • Franz Taeschner: Ǧihānnümā. The old Ottoman chronicle of Mevlānā Meḥemmed Neschrī. Volume 1, Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1951; Volume 2, 1955
  • Faik Reşit Unat, Mehmet Altay Köymen: Mehmed Neşrî: Kitāb-ı Cihān-nümā, Neşrî tarihi. Volume 1, Ankara 1949; Volume 2, Ankara 1957

See also

literature

  • Fahriye Arık: Onbeşinci asır tarihçilerinden Neşrî'nin hayatı ve eserleri. Istanbul 1936.
  • VL Ménage: Ne sh rī's History of the Ottomans: the sources and development of the text. London 1964.
  • Franz Taeschner: Neşri tarihi elyazıları üzerine araştırmalar. In: Belleten . Volume XV, 1951, pp. 497-505.
  • Şehabeddin Tekindağ: Neşrî. In: İslâm Ansiklopedisi . Volume ix, pp. 214-215.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Christine Woodhead Ne sh rī in The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition
personal data
SURNAME Neşri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neşrī; نشرى (Turkish)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ottoman historian
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH before 1520