Mehmed Raşid

Mehmed Raşid ( Ottoman محمد راشد; * around 1670 in Istanbul ; † 1735 ibid) was an Ottoman historian and poet . His main work is the " Chronicle of Raschid " (تاريخ راشد / Tārīḫ-i Rāšid ).

Life

Mehmed Raşid's father was the Qādī (judge) Mustafa Efendi from Malatya . 1704 was Mehmed Müderris (lecturer at a madrasah ), 1718 even at the Suleymaniye Mosque . From 1714 to 1721 he served as a historian at the Hohe Pforte . He became Qādī in Aleppo from 1723–1724 , later also in Istanbul as a favorite of the Grand Vizier Nevşehirli Damat İbrahim Pasha . From 1728 to 1729 he was ambassador to Isfahan . Since he sympathized with the Patrona Halil uprising in 1730 , he had to go into exile in Bursa and Limni for three years . In 1734 he was appointed Kazi'asker ( Army Judge ) of Anatolia , the highest academic rank in the Ottoman Empire , comparable to today's Minister of Justice. In this post he was responsible for the appointment and appointment of Qādīs and Müderrisîn as well as in charge of all military trials and legal matters that concerned the empire. He died at this post in 1735.

plant

Mehmed Raşid enjoyed a high reputation as a prose writer and poet, but he was best known as a historiographer. In 1714 he wrote a report on the reign of Sultan Ahmed III on behalf of the Grand Vizier Damad Ali Paşa . for which he received permission to inspect all Reich documents. As a continuation of the Chronicle of Na'īmā , he wrote his work, usually called Tarih-i Raşid , from 1722 , which is the main source for the period from 1660 to 1721. In addition to Na'īmā's work, Raşid also used Sarı Mehmet Pascha 's chronicle Zübde-i Veḳāyiʿāt , from which he literally took larger parts for the years 1671–1703. In 1741 his work was published for the first time in one edition by İbrahim Müteferrika , in 1865 for the second time in five volumes.

literature

Christine Woodhead: Rāshid, Meḥmed. In: The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition . Vol. 8, Brill, Leiden, p. 441 (English).
Fatih Günay: Râşid Mehmed Efendi. In: Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi . Vol. 34, pp. 463-465 (Turkish).

Web links

Digitized works by Mehmed Raşid in the Internet Archive .

Individual evidence

↑ Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Vol. 34, p. 463, middle column.

personal data
SURNAME	Mehmed Raşid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mehmed Raşid Efendi; Mehmet Raşit (spelling adapted to modern Turkish orthography)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ottoman legal scholar and historian
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1670
PLACE OF BIRTH	Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH	1735
Place of death	Istanbul

[1] Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Vol. 34, p. 463, middle column.