, Ottoman Turkish historian.

All that we know of his life has to be gleaned from his works. He was born in 1939/1532, for he tells us that at the accession of Sultan Murād III, i.e. in 982/1574, he was 43. At the early age of eleven he took part in the campaign of 950/1543, along with his elder brother Perwāne Ag̲h̲a, who at that time was Ḳapud̲j̲i̊ Bas̲h̲i̊ , to the Sand̲j̲aḳ Beg of Lepanto, Yaḥyā Pas̲h̲a-Og̲h̲lu Aḥmad Beg. When the latter, after the capture of Stuhlweissenburg, was appointed Sand̲j̲aḳ Beg there, the brothers seemed to have remained in his service, probably till 952/…