Oruç Bey (''Oruç bin Âdil'') was a 15th-century
Ottoman historian.
Life and career
Almost nothing is known from his personal life. Based on the information in the intro of his chronicle, it is believed that he was a
clerk
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born in
Edirne
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and that his father was a
silk
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manufacturer.
Works
Oruç Bey's work is called ''Oruç Bey Tarihi'' ("The History of Oruç Bey"), sometimes named similarly to other Ottoman chronicles "" (History of the house of
Osman Osman is the Persian transliteration and derived from the Arabic masculine given name Uthman ( ar, عُثْمان, , link=no ''‘uthmān'') or an English surname. It may refer to:
People
* Osman (name), people with the name
* Osman I (1258–132 ...
). It is written in
Ottoman Turkish
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 ...
and describes the Ottoman history till
Hijrah
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907 (
anno1501/1502). His chronicle is considered as an important source for the history of the early Ottoman Empire.
See also
*
List of Muslim historians
:''This is a subarticle of Islamic scholars, List of Muslim scholars and List of historians.''
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References
Bibliography
*
Franz Babinger
Franz Babinger (15 January 1891 – 23 June 1967) was a well-known German orientalist and historian of the Ottoman Empire, best known for his biography of the great Ottoman emperor Mehmed II, known as "the Conqueror", originally published as ''Me ...
, Berlin, "Die frühosmanischen Jahrbücher des Urudsch"
15th-century historians from the Ottoman Empire
Historians of the Ottoman Empire
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