Solakzade Mehmed Hemdemi

This is an Ottoman Turkish style name. Mehmed is the given name, and the family name is Solakzade.

Solakzade Mehmed (1592–1658), using the pen name Hemdemi, was an Ottoman historian and music composer.^[1] He wrote a famous Ottoman history named Tarih-i Solakzade (History of Solakzade). He seems to have been the son of a Solak, a janissary bowman of the sultan's personal guard, and was born in Constantinople.^[2]

References

↑ Encyclopaedic Historiography of the Muslim World, Nagendra Kr. Singh, Abida Samiuddin, page 920, 2004
↑ First Encyclopaedia of Islam: 1913-1936, M. Th Houtsma, page 482

Ottoman historians

15th century	Oruç Bey Aşıkpaşazade Enveri Ibn Kemal Neşri Şükrullah Tursun Bey

16th century	Mustafa Âlî Lûtfi Paşa Matrakçı Nasuh Hoca Sadeddin Efendi Mustafa Selaniki

17th century	İbrahim Peçevi Solakzade Mehmed Hemdemi Kâtip Çelebi Münejjim Bashi Silahdar Fındklılı Mehmed Ağa Osman Aga of Temesvar Mustafa Naima

18th century	Ahmed Resmî Efendi

19th century	Ali Amiri Ahmed Cevdet Pasha

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