Taj ad-Dīn İbrahim ibn Hizr Ahmedi (1334–1413), better known by his
pen nameTaceddin Ahmedi, was an
Ottoman poet and is considered one of the greatest poets in 14th-century
Anatolia. Born in Anatolia, he went to study with
Akmal al-Din al-Babarti in
Cairo as a young man. As a young man, he visited the court of
Bayezid I, and attended the
Battle of Ankara, where he met and wrote and
qasida to
Timur.[1] After Bayezid's death, he dedicated his work titled the Iskendername, the earliest surviving work of Ottoman historiography and the earliest Turkish rendition of the Alexander Romance, to
Süleyman Çelebi.[2][3][4] Modeled after the Iskandarnameh of
Neẓāmī, in over 8,000 couplets Ahmedi uses the outline of
Alexander the Great's conquests to offer discourse on philosophy, theology, and history. After his patron's death, he was in the employ of
Mehmed I until his death in 1413.[1]
^Tezcan, Baki (2013). "The Memory of the Mongols in Early Ottoman Historiography". In Çıpa, H. Erdem; Fetvaci, Emine (eds.). Writing history at the Ottoman court: editing the past, fashioning the future. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. p. 30.
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