ŞEYHÜLİSLAM MEHMET EFENDİ VE TARİHÇİLİĞİ

Abstract

Mehmet Efendi, who lived between 1568 to 1615 was an Ottoman scholar and statesman. With the education that he had, he started his scholarship life as a teacher then he raised to the islamic leadership (şeyhülislam). His father Hodja Sa‘deddin Efendi was one of the famous scholars and statesmen. Mehmet Efendi wrote a supplement to Tâcü’tTevârih which belonged to his father. Hodja Sa‘deddin Efendi wanted to write about Sultan Süleyman period but he couldn’t write.. In Ibtihâcu’t-Tevârih it’s possible to find some informations about Ottoman history writing concerning with that period. This article examines Mehmet Efendi and his historianship.