Tursun Beg ( tr, Tursun Bey; probably born in mid-1420s in Bursa)Woodhead, Christine. "Ṭūrsūn Beg." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill, 2011. was an Ottoman bureaucrat and historian who wrote a chronicle dedicated to Mehmed II. Tursun Beg's life is only known from references in his chronicle. He came from a prominent

timariot Timariot (or ''tımar'' holder; ''tımarlı'' in Turkish) was the name given to a Sipahi cavalryman in the Ottoman army. In return for service, each timariot received a parcel of revenue called a timar, a fief, which were usually recently conque ...

family and held a

timar A timar was a land grant by the sultans of the Ottoman Empire between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, with an annual tax revenue of less than 20,000 akçes. The revenues produced from the land acted as compensation for military service ...

himself. He worked in the imperial

divan A divan or diwan ( fa, دیوان, ''dīvān''; from Sumerian ''dub'', clay tablet) was a high government ministry in various Islamic states, or its chief official (see ''dewan''). Etymology The word, recorded in English since 1586, meanin ...

and accompanied Mehmed II during the

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in 1453 that led to the fall of Constantinople. Tursun Beg's only known work is the ''Tarih-i Ebülfeth'' (تاريخ ابو الفتح in Ottoman; "The History of the Conqueror").

Bibliography

*Tursun Beg. ''The history of Mehmed the Conqueror''. arih-i EbülfethHalil Inalcik and Rhoads Murphey trans. Minneapolis: Bibliotheca Islamica, 1978. *Woodhead, Christine. "Tursun Beg." Encyclopaedia of Islam. 2nd Edition.

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