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|Has Description=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: Forty Viziers|Ahmed-i Mısrî's Forty Viziers]] texts - was used as the source text for Şeyḫ-zāde's composition (see the catalogue page for [https://www.islam-anatolia.ac.uk/data/documents/auth/local:ayy:719 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).
|Has Language Within Version=Turkish
|Has Title=Ḥikāyet-i Ḳırḳ Vezīr
|Has Branch Of Tradition=East
|Is Adapted From=Ahmed-i Mısrî: Forty Viziers
|Has Original Language Of Version=Turkish
|Has Start Date Of Composition=1446
|Has End Date Of Composition=1500
|Has Text Language=Turkish
|Has Regional Language=Ottoman Turkish
|Has Modern Research Literature=Gara (2024); Gibb (1886); Kızıltan (1991); Kızıltan (2002)
|Has Modern Edition=Kızıltan, Kırk Vezir Hikâyeleri (1991)
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