Solakzade Mehmed Hemdemi

Solakzade Mehmed Hemdemi (1592-1658) was a 17th-century Ottoman historian and music composer.^[1] He wrote an famous Ottoman history named Tarih-i Solakzade (History of Solakzade). He seems to have been the son of a Solak, a janissary bowman of the sultan's personal guard, and was born in Constantinople.^[2]

References

↑ Encyclopaedic Historiography of the Muslim World, Nagendra Kr. Singh, Abida Samiuddin, page 920, 2004
↑ First Encyclopaedia of Islam: 1913-1936, M. Th Houtsma, page 482

Ottoman historians

15th century	Oruç Bey Aşıkpaşazade Enveri Ibn Kemal Neşri Şükrullah Tursun Bey

16th century	Mustafa Âlî Lûtfi Paşa Matrakçı Nasuh İbrahim Peçevi Hoca Sadeddin Efendi Mustafa Selaniki

17th century	Müneccimbaşı Ahmed Dede Kâtip Çelebi Mustafa Naima Temeşvarlı Osman Ağa (Othman Agha of Temeşvar) Silahdar Fındklılı Mehmed Ağa Solakzade Mehmed Hemdemi

18th century	Ahmed Resmî Efendi

19th century	Ali Amiri (Turkish historian) Ahmet Cevdet Pasha

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