ID	6
Author	Mevlānā Şükrullah / Şükrullah Efendi (d. after 1464)
Work Title	Behcet’ül-tevārīh (“Splendor of histories”)
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Manuscripts	More than 18 mss. in various libraries (see Şükrullah Efendi, Behcetü’t-tevârîh: tarihin aydınlığında, ed. Hasan Almaz, Istanbul: Mostar 2010, 40-41)
Editions	editor: Hasan Almaz; title: Behcetü’t-tevârîh: tarihin aydınlığında; publisher: Mostar; date: 2010
Date	1459
Content Summary	A universal history (written originally in Persian; there is a widespread Ottoman Turkish translation by Muṣṭafa Fārisī), beginning with cosmological and geographical preliminaries; contains information on figures like Idris/Hermes, alternative versions of the creation of universe, the series of worlds, astrological explanation of historical and geographical realities, legendary origins of magic.
Bibliography	Cornell H. Fleischer, Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: The Historian Mustafa Âli (1541-1600), Princeton 1986, 240; Franz Babinger, Die Geschichtschreiber der Osmanen und ihre Werke, Leipzig 1927, 19-20; Sara Nur Yıldız, “Ottoman Historical Writing in Persian, 1400-1600”, in Charles Melville (ed.), Persian Historiography [vol. 10 in the series A History of Persian Literature, edited by Ehsan Yarshater], New York 2012, 436-502 at 443-450; Baki Tezcan, “Ottoman Historical Writing”, in José Rabasa, Masayuki Sato, Edoardo Tortarolo, Daniel Woolf (eds), The Oxford History of Historical Writing, vol. 3: 1400-1800, Oxford 2012, 192-211 at 196-197; TDVİA, s.v. “Şükrullah” (Sara Nur Yıldız) and “Behcetü’t-tevârîh” (Ayla Demiroğlu)
Categories	alchemy, astrology, divination, literature, marvels, Sufism, magic, natural sciences, oniromancy, talismanic
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Contributor	Marinos Sariyannis
Date Added	2024-09-17 12:28:09