著者

今澤 浩二

出版者

一般社団法人 日本オリエント学会

雑誌

オリエント (ISSN:00305219)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.37, no.1, pp.121-136, 1994

---

Kemalpasazade (1468-1534) was born in a military family, but afterwards changed over to the <i>Ulema</i>. He served in Bayezid II, Selim I and S&uuml;leyman the Magnificent, and was promoted to the <i>Seyh&uuml;lisl&acirc;m</i>, the highest rank of the Ulema. His chronicle in the fluent and elegant Ottoman-Turkish style, <i>Tev&acirc;r&icirc;h-i &Acirc;l-i Osm&acirc;n</i> was composed in the form that each volume (<i>defter</i>) was assigned for one of the Ottoman sultans, and 8 volumes for the reigns from Osman I to Bayezid II were dedicated to Bayezid II in 916/1510-11. After that by the request of S&uuml;leyman, 2 volumes for Selim and S&uuml;leyman were added, and thus the so-called <i>&ldquo;Kemalpasazade Tarihi&rdquo;</i> came into existence in 10 volumes. This work, however, was not appreciated in those days and forgotten by the later Ottoman chroniclers. Since in the latter half of this century Prof. Dr. Serafettin Turan published <i>Kemalpasazade Tarihi</i>, vol. 1, 2 and 7, the importance of this work has been gradually appreciated.<br>This paper deals with <i>Kemalpasazade Tarihi</i>, vol. 4 for the reign of Yildirim Bayezid (1389-1403), which still remains a manuscript. The contents and the order of description of this work is fundamentally based on Nesr&icirc;'s <i>Kitab-i Cihan-n&uuml;m&acirc;</i>, and also made use of the chronicles in the early ages of the Ottoman Empire, Oruc b. &Acirc;dil's and the anonymous Tev&acirc;r&icirc;h-i &Acirc;l-i Osm&acirc;n, etc. On the other hand, however, <i>Kemalpasazade Tarihi</i>, vol. 4 contains much information of its own, which the above-mentioned works do not, and in this point we can say that this work has the great value as historical source. It fully describes the important events, for example, of the murder of Kadi Burhaneddin, the ruler of Sivas, by Kara Y&uuml;l&uuml;k Osman, the founder of the Aqqoyunlu Empire, and of the refuge of Aqtav, the influential <i>amir</i> of the Golden Horde, to the Ottoman Empire. And also there are valuable accounts for the activities of Bayezid's son Ertugrul and the generals of the marches (<i>uc beyi</i>).<br>From now on, if we make use of these accounts which did not come down to the later historical works, carrying out a further examination of them and confirming their reliableness, it has no doubt that <i>Kemalpasazade Tarihi</i>, vol. 4 is the essential source as well as Aslkpasazade, Nesr&icirc; and so on, for the reign of Yildirim Bayezid, the important age for the development of the Ottoman Empire.