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view he seems to stray from the traditional style of chronicle writing, which usually<br />

lacks interpretation and analysis. Another valuable side of Ali’s history is that it includes<br />

biographies of contemporary viziers, statesmen, poets, scholars etc. Later chronicles<br />

written in the seventeenth century, such as the history of Solakzāde (SLZ) 66 and<br />

Sahaifu’l-Ahbar of Müneccimbaşı (MNB) 67 barely adds unknown bits of knowledge to<br />

the known corpus.<br />

Lastly, a sixteenth-century anonymous chronicle (Haniwaldanus Anonymous-<br />

ANMH) deserves special attention. This anonymous history was translated from Turkish<br />

into Latin by a certain Murad Bey, who was encouraged by Philipp Haniwald von<br />

Eckersdorf, in 1584. The Latin text was translated into German and published by R. F.<br />

Kreutel. 68 The importance of this source, for the purpose of the present study, is not only<br />

because of its valuable information absent in other sources, but also because of its<br />

relatively ‘objective’ attitude regarding the qizilbash issues. Fundamentally differing<br />

from other Ottoman sources, it occasionally depicts Shaykh Junayd, Shaykh Haydar, and<br />

Shah Ismail, and their disciples as ‘good men’. On the other hand, regarding the deeds of<br />

Selim, Haniwaldanus Anonymous does not hesitate to criticize his unlawful acts. These<br />

features ensure a peculiar place to this anonymous history in the Ottoman<br />

historiography.<br />

66<br />

Solakzâde Mehmed Hemdemî Çelebi, Solakzâde Tarihi, vols. I-II, ed. Vahit Çabuk, Ankara: Kültür<br />

Bakanlığı Yayınları, 1989.<br />

67<br />

Müneccimbaşı Ahmed Dede, Sahaif-ül-Ahbar fî Vekayi-ül-a’sâr, 2 vols., trc. Đsmail Erünsal, Tercüman<br />

1001 Eser Serisi.<br />

68<br />

R. F. Kreutel, Der fromme Sultan Bayezid die Geschichte seiner Herrschaft (1481-1512) nach den<br />

altosmanischen Chroniken des Oruç und des Anonymus Haniwaldanus, Vienna, 1978. The Turkish<br />

translation of this work is published by Necdet Öztürk. See Richard F. Kreutel, Haniwaldanus Anonimi’ne<br />

Göre Sultan Bayezid-i Velî (1481-1512), trs., Necdet Öztürk, Đstanbul: Türk Dünyası Araştırmaları Vakfı,<br />

1997.<br />

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