Idris Bitlisi, clerkly writing History and Islamic paradigm in the Ottoman historiography
Subject Areas : The Journal of Islamic History and Civilisation
Mohammad Hossein
Sadeghi
1
(University of Tehran)
Keywords: Idris Bitlisi, historiography, Islamic paradigm, Persian writing History, clerkly writing History,
Abstract :
Due to the presence of Iranian scholars and scientists and the support of the sultans and princes, the Persian language and literature and, accordingly, Persian historiography have enjoyed a special place in the Ottoman Empire. So, under the patronage of the Ottoman court, several historical works were written. Idris Bitlisi has a special place among the Persian historians of the Ottoman court. So he can be considered the most prominent representative of Persian writing and Iranian historiography in the Ottoman court. After presenting a description of the life of Idris Bitlisi, focusing on the text of Hasht Bihisht and Salim Shahnameh as his two historiographical works, the present study aims to identify the main components of his history writing and historiography and explain these components in the final step. The findings of the current research show that the detailed report of events, using artificial and literary prose, the mixing of text with poems, verses, and hadiths, the lack of sufficient references to the sources of the narrations, and the Regular division of contents are the most important features of his history writing and the Presenting an imperial image of the Ottoman Empire, the effort in In order to legitimize the “Al-i Osman”, using the historical narrative to serve the political purposes of the Ottoman state, placing the court in the center of the narrative, not being limited to quoting political history, paying attention to governmental, scientific and social institutions, influential men and scholars, and Attention to the conditions of neighboring