Şeyḫ-zāde: Forty Viziers

The author Şeyḫ-zāde Meḥmed b. ‘Abdu’r-raḥmān es-Sirvezī, known in scholarship as Şeyḫ-zāde, is the author of the second of two renditions of the Forty Viziers narrative (or, Ḥikāyet-i Ḳırḳ Vezīr). According to the introduction in some manuscripts, the work named Ḥikāyet-i Erba‘īn Ṣubḥ u Mesā - the title of Ahmed-i Mısrî's Forty Viziers texts - was used as the source text for Şeyḫ-zāde's composition (see the catalogue page for St Andrew's 'Islamisation of Anatolia' project). Şeyḫ-zāde reportedly made some additions and changes to Ahmed-i Mısrî's text, and presented his version both Murād II (1404-1451 CE), and Meḥmed II (1432-1481 CE).

General Information
Language within Version	Turkish
Narrative / Scholarly Group
Parent Versions	Turkish Forty Viziers
Child Versions
Author
Title	Ḥikāyet-i Ḳırḳ Vezīr
Siglum of the version of the Seven Sages
Version Number
Branch of the tradition	East

Language & Composition
Original language of version	Turkish
Translated into (languages)
Place of composition
Date of composition	1446 - 1500
Source for date of composition

Literature & Editions
Modern research literature	Gara (2024), Gibb (1886), Kızıltan (1991), Kızıltan (2002)
Modern Editions	Kızıltan, Kırk Vezir Hikâyeleri (1991)

Recorded branch of this secondary version
Forty Viziers: Ḥikāyet-i Ḳırḳ Vezīr Turkish Forty Viziers Ahmed-i Mısrî: Forty Viziers Şeyḫ-zāde: Forty Viziers

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Adaptations
Adapted from (version)	Ahmed-i Mısrî: Forty Viziers
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Languages in Use
Language of text	Turkish
Regional or specific language of version	Ottoman Turkish

Notes
Note
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