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

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

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. 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

References

1. ^ Woodhead, Christine. "Ṭūrsūn Beg." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill, 2011.

v t e Ottoman historians
15th century	Oruç Bey Aşıkpaşazade Enveri Ibn Kemal Neshri Şükrullah Tursun Beg
16th century	Mustafa Âlî Lûtfi Pasha Matrakçı Nasuh Sadeddin Effendi Mustafa Selaniki Taşköprüzade
17th century	Ibrahim Petchevi Solakzade Mehmed Hemdemi Kâtip Çelebi Munejjim Bashi Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed Agha Osman Aga of Temesvar Mustafa Naima Al-Hasan al-Burini
18th century	Ahmed Resmî Efendi
19th century	Ali Amiri Ahmed Cevdet Pasha

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