Oruç

This article is about an Ottoman historian and author. For the Turkish journalist see Şerife Oruç , for the Turkish soccer player see Ozan Can Oruç , for the pirate see Arudsch .

Oruç Bey , German also Urudsch ( Ottoman اوروج بن عادل القزاز İA Oruc b. ʿĀdil el-Ḳazzāz , Turkish Oruç , late 15th century - early 16th century), was an Ottoman historian and author of one of the earliest historical works in Turkish about the Ottoman dynasty and secretary in Edirne . His birth and death years are not known. He wrote his chronicle, beginning with the time of Mehmed II , but especially about the rule of Bayezid II. Veli (Eng. "The saint").

life and work

In the foreword to his Chronicle of Urudj (that's the German title, in the original Tevārīḫ-i āl-i ʿO s mān  /تواريخ آل عثمان) he describes himself as Kâtib al-Edrenewî  /كاتب الادرنوى / 'Secretary in Edirne', the second royal seat of the Ottoman Empire and is called Âdil  /عادلthan his father's name. His father was a silk merchant ( kazzaz ). His lifetime can be classified based on a certificate found by Irène Beldiceanu-Steinherr in 1970. This document, issued in the year 905 of the Hijra ( Islamic calendar ), the year 1499/1500 AD, proves the establishment of a pious foundation by "the secretary Oruç, son of Âdil". He wrote his chronicle during the reign of Bayezid II.

His chronicle is based on imperial calendars / yearbooks (Takvim) and on various menâkıbnâme such as that of Yahşi Fakih . Six manuscripts are known of this chronicle, one of which is in Turkey and five in occidental libraries. The time span of the reports varies, the longest going up to the end of 1502. The Ottoman scholar, chronicler and later Şeyhülislâm Şemseddin Ahmed, called Ibn-i Kemal or Kemal-Paşa-zâde, used the Oruç writings as the basis for the history of Bayezid used in Volume VIII of his work Tevârîh-i Âl-i Osmân ( Eng . “History of the House of Osman”).

Even if the adaptation by Ibn-i Kemal soon made the original forgotten because of its style virtuosity, the original text is of great value to the historian. The native language full of narrative details (storms, floods, conflagrations) provides a detailed picture of Ottoman life at that time.

“[…] Raised a wretch, a rascal, a heretic, a schismatic, a cursed, an unbeliever, a felt bearer in Haydari costume ^*) with the damned rings on a river near a ford where our Padishah crossed the river in the ear and around the neck, a villainous assassin, an uncircumcised, unclean, dirty, hideous fiend put his hand against our Padishah and committed an attack. "

^*) Haydari dress: rough felt cowl without sleeves worn by some dervish orders

literature

• F. Babinger: The early Ottoman yearbooks of Uruj. Source works of Islamic literature . ii. Hanover 1925
• Halil İnalcık : The rise of Ottoman historiography . In: Bernard Lewis , PM Holt (editors): Historians of the Middle East . London 1962, pp. 152-167
• 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 . from the series of Ottoman historians. Volume 9. Verlag Styria, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1978, ISBN 3-222-10469-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Christine Woodhead: Uru dj . In: The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition
2. ↑ Kemal-Paşa-zâde: Kemalpaşazade Tarihi. Volume VIII. Millî Kütüphane (National Library), Ali Emiri No. 32, Istanbul.
3. ^ 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. from the series of Ottoman historians. Volume 9. Verlag Styria, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1978, ISBN 3-222-10469-7 , pp. 24-28.
4. ^ 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. from the series of Ottoman historians . Volume 9. Verlag Styria, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1978, ISBN 3-222-10469-7 , p. 60.