death_date era notability title main_interests birth_date works article_title name
1488 ottoman empire ottoman historian '' ' Şükrullah '' ' ottoman history 1388 `` `` joy of histories '' -rrb- bahjat al -- tawari ` kh '' -lrb- Şükrullah
 Şükrullah
Şükrullah

Şükrullah -lrb- 1388-1488 -rrb- was a 15th-century ottoman historian and diplomat .
he was born in 1388 in amasya and died in constantinople and is one of the earliest ottoman historians .
he wrote an famous universal history in the 1460s persian language named bahjat al -- tawari ` kh of histories and presented it to mahmud pasha angelovic .
his work was used by later ottoman historians .
