Enveri (d. 1512?) was a 15th-century Ottoman poet and historian. He wrote a famous Ottoman history in the

Ottoman Turkish language Ottoman Turkish ( ota, لِسانِ عُثمانى, Lisân-ı Osmânî, ; tr, Osmanlı Türkçesi) was the standardized register of the Turkish language used by the citizens of the Ottoman Empire (14th to 20th centuries CE). It borrowed extens ...

named ''Dusturname'', the Constitutional Book (for Ottoman History). His work consists of 3730 verses and is based on three parts: the first is a universal

Islamic history The history of Islam concerns the political, social, economic, military, and cultural developments of the Islamic civilization. Most historians believe that Islam originated in Mecca and Medina at the start of the 7th century CE. Muslims r ...

, the second, which he is famous for, about the

Aydinids The Aydinids or Aydinid dynasty (Modern Turkish: ''Aydınoğulları'', ''Aydınoğulları Beyliği'', ota, آیدین اوغوللاری بیلیغی), also known as the Principality of Aydin and Beylik of Aydin (), was one of the Anatolia ...

, and the third (842 verses) about the

Ottomans The Ottoman Turks ( tr, Osmanlı Türkleri), were the Turkic founding and sociopolitically the most dominant ethnic group of the Ottoman Empire ( 1299/1302–1922). Reliable information about the early history of Ottoman Turks remains scarce, ...

. Not much is known about his personal life.First Encyclopaedia of Islam: 1913-1936, M. Th Houtsma, page 482

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Year of birth missing 1512 deaths 15th-century historians from the Ottoman Empire 15th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire Historians of the medieval Islamic world {{Turkey-historian-stub