{{short description|16th century Ottoman scholar and chronicler}} {{Infobox religious biography | name = Mustafa Selaniki | image = | caption = | birth_name = Mustafa of Salonica | birth_date = | birth_place = [[Salonica]], [[Ottoman Empire]] | death_date = {{circa|1600}} | death_place = | religion = Islam | denomination= Sunni | jurisprudence = | creed = | main_interests = History, Ottoman Empire | notable_works = * ''Tarih-i Selâniki'' | influenced = * Ottoman historians }}
'''Mustafa Selaniki''' ({{langx|tr|Selanıkî Mustafa}}; Mustafa of [[Salonica]]; died c. 1600), also known as '''Selanıkî Mustafa Efendi''', was an Ottoman scholar and [[chronicler]], whose ''Tarih-i Selâniki'' described the [[Ottoman Empire]] of 1563–1599.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Ipsirli |first=Mehmet |date=1976 |title=Mustafa Selaniki's history of the Ottomans |url=https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/7329}}</ref> He was a secretary of the Imperial [[Divan]] but his ''Tarih'' was not servile and included criticisms of the sultans directly. The ''Tarih-i Selâniki'' is considered one of the most individualistic accounts of 16th century Ottoman life.<ref name=":0" /> It also offered one of the most detailed accounts of the cold and famine in Anatolia in the 1590s related to the [[Little Ice Age]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Burman |first1=Thomas E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TYx0EAAAQBAJ |title=Texts from the Middle: Documents from the Mediterranean World, 650–1650 |last2=Catlos |first2=Brian A. |last3=Meyerson |first3=Mark D. |date=2022-08-23 |publisher=Univ of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-96901-8 |pages=232 |language=en}}</ref>
Little is known about Selaniki's life, including his family, background, or age, but parts of his education can be inferred; Selaniki stated that he was one of the six [[Hafiz (Quran)|hafiz]] who recited from the Quran over the body of [[Suleiman the Magnificent]].
== ''Tarih-i Selâniki'' == The ''Tarih-i Selâniki'' was not widely incorporated into Ottoman historiography and was only partially published in 1864; the publication itself contained many edits, modifications, and interpolations. The historian [[Solakzade Mehmed Hemdemi]] is thought to have had access to it, but did not credit the work to Selaniki specifically.<ref name=":0" />
The chronicle begins with a description of torrential rain falling in September 1563 and concludes with the escape of [[Kasim Voyvoda]] from his captors in May 1600. It spans the reign of four sultans: the final years of Suleiman the Magnificent, the entirety of [[Selim II]] and [[Murad III]], and the first five years of [[Mehmed III|Mehmed III's]] reign.
== Works ==
* {{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ragpAAAAYAAJ |title=Tarih-i Selâniki |publisher=Türk Tarih Kurumu Yayınları |isbn=9789751608932 |editor-last=İpşirli |editor-first=Mehmed |location=Istanbul |oclc=949392862}}
== See also == *[[Salonica]]
== References == {{Reflist}}{{Ottoman historians|state=all}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Selaniki, Mustafa}} [[Category:16th-century births]] [[Category:1600 deaths]] [[Category:16th-century historians from the Ottoman Empire]]
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