Idris Bitlisi
Idris -i Bitlisi (* 1452-1457 in Bitlis and Diyarbakir, † November or December 1520 in Istanbul) was an Ottoman historian, poet, translator and calligrapher as well as senior officials and military leaders probably of Kurdish ethnicity. His full name was Mevlana Hakimuddin İdris -i b. Mevlana Husamuddin Ali al - Bitlisi. His Nisba " al - Bitlisi " indicates an origin from Bitlis. Idris -i Bitlisi wrote his major works, the Chronicles snatches Bihischt and Selim -name, in the Persian language. He also wrote several treatises in Arabic and translations in Persian. Members of his family suffered long as the prince of Bitlis, under which Scherefhan was the most famous.
In nationalist Kurdish circles İdris is regarded as a traitor to the Kurdish cause, because he had the Kurds surrendered to the Ottomans. Sometimes İdris -i Bitlisi is also called " Iblis -i Bitlisi " ( " The Devil of Bitlis ").
Life
His father, Mevlana Husam ad-Din Ali al - Bitlisi, who died in Tabriz in 1495, was a mystic and writer at the court of Uzun Hasan, the ruler of the Aq Qoyunlu. About his mother is not known. As Uzun Hasan in 1469 moved its seat of government from Diyarbakir to Tabriz, Husam ad-Din went with his family. From an early age learned İdris know at the court life and was after the death of Uzun Hasan in 1478, the personal scribe of the new ruler Sultan Yakup. He served Sultan Yakup until his death in 1491. During this time İdris wrote the Risale -i Hazâniyye, which was reported on Sultan Yakups campaigns to Arran and Azerbaijan. Idris held until 1501 high among the rulers Sultan Rustem Bey and Alwand offices at court.
Idris -i Bitlisi was initially nişancı the Aq Qoyunlu and thus their Head of the State Chancellery. In this capacity, he wrote in 1485, a congratulatory letter to Bayezid II, which took a lot of attention and recognition. Before the rise of the Safavid ruler Ismail chess İdris fled in 1501 or 1502, and Mecca and Medina to Istanbul. There he was commissioned by Sultan Bayezid II to write a chronicle of the house Osman. The plant was named snatches Bihischt, the "Eight Paradises ". Thus the dominions of the Ottoman sultans were meant eight of the founding of the empire, to Bayezid II. He completed the Persian-language business within 30 months. But the Sultan refused İdris the payment of the promised wages, since this was handled in his work too lenient with the Persians. Idris asked permission to make a pilgrimage to Mecca, which was, however, granted to him after the death of his grand vizier hostile. From Mecca threatened İdris the Sultan in a letter to release the hurt in his chronicle, if he should not do justice. The new Sultan Selim I called him back to the court and received shortly after the full chronicle. In the conclusion of the work İdris in a şikayet name ( " action or appeal " ) describes his misfortune.
Idris accompanied Sultan Selim I on various raids, and won after the battle of caldiran the Kurdish tribes against the Safavids for the Ottoman cause. Then İdris received from the Sultan the power to reorganize the Kurdish territories and to integrate into the Ottoman administrative system.
Idris -i Bitlisi later wrote a chronicle of the reign of Selim I ( Selim Selim Shah -name or -name), an unfinished work, which was edited and published by İdris ' son of Abu ' l- Fadl to an end. In the introduction to this work İdris mentioned that he wanted to deliver to posterity a model of domination and incidentally also ensure the continuance of his own name.
Idris -i Bitlisi died in 1520 and was buried in Istanbul's Eyüp next to a gestiften by his wife Zeynep Hatun Mosque.
Works (selection)
- Hascht Bihischt ( "Eight Paradises " ), a chronicle of the first eight Ottoman sultans
- Selim Selim Shah -name or - name, one of the most well-known representative of the Selim -name- genus
- Al - Iba ' ʿ at Mawaqi'i ' Arabic l - Waba ', a treatise on the plague and ways to protect themselves from infection,
- A Persian translation of Damiris Hayat al - Hayawan ( "The Lives of Animals " ) ( cf. Hammer Purgstall II, p 518)
- Risala -i - nafs fi'n ( " Epistle on the soul " ), philosophical writing, Arabic
- An explanation ( Sharh ) to Schabistaris Gulsschan -i Raz ( " Rosenflor of secrecy" at Hammer -Purgstall )
- An explanation of the Chamriyya ( " Ode to Wine " ) by Ibn al - Farid
- For an explanation of Fusus al - Hikam ( " ring stones of divine wisdom " ) of Ibn Arabi
- Notes ( Haschiyya ) to the Qur'an exegesis ( Tafseer ) Baydawis
- A Persian translation of the 40 Hadiths
See
- List Ottoman chroniclers
- List of Ottoman title