Tursun Beg

In this Ottoman Turkish style name, the given name is Tursun, the title is Bey, and there is no family name.

Tursun Beg (Turkish: Tursun Bey; probably born in mid-1420s in Edirne)^[1] was an Ottoman bureaucrat and historian who wrote a chronicle dedicated to Mehmed II.

Tursun Beg
Title	Tursun Beg
Personal life
Born	c. 1420
Died	1499
Era	Ottoman Empire
Main interest(s)	Ottoman history
Notable work(s)	"Tarih-i Ebülfeth" ("The History of the Conqueror")
Religious life
Religion	Islam

Tursun Beg's life is only known from references in his chronicle. He came from a prominent timariot family and held a timar himself.^[1] He worked in the imperial divan and accompanied Mehmed II during the siege of Constantinople in 1453 that led to the fall of Constantinople.^[1]

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. [Tarih-i Ebülfeth] Halil Inalcik and Rhoads Murphey trans. Minneapolis: Bibliotheca Islamica, 1978.
• Woodhead, Christine. "Tursun Beg." Encyclopaedia of Islam. 2nd Edition.

See also

• List of Muslim historians