Mustafa Naima, official historian to the Ottoman court, chronicles the empire year by year from the Hijra year 1000: grand viziers raised and executed, Janissary mutinies, muftis deposed, and campaigns against Persia and against the Habsburgs on the Danube and in Hungary. Charles Fraser’s English version covers the years 1591 to 1659.
A rare chance to read Ottoman history as the Ottomans themselves recorded it. Download the free EPUB.