Enveri

Enveri (d. 1512?) was a 15th-century Ottoman poet and historian.^[1] He wrote a famous Ottoman history in the Ottoman Turkish language named Dusturname, the Constitutional Book (for Ottoman History). His work consists of 3730 verses and is based on three parts: the first is a universal Islamic history, the second, which he is famous for, about the Aydinids, and the third (842 verses) about the Ottomans. Not much is known about his personal life.^[2]

References

↑ The Oxford History of Historical Writing 3, José Rabasa,D. Daniel R. Woolf, page 197, 2012
↑ 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 Hoca Sadeddin Efendi Mustafa Selaniki

17th century	İbrahim Peçevi Solakzade Mehmed Hemdemi Kâtip Çelebi Münejjim Bashi Silahdar Fındklılı Mehmed Ağa Osman Aga of Temesvar Mustafa Naima

18th century	Ahmed Resmî Efendi

19th century	Ali Amiri Ahmed Cevdet Pasha

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