Mustafa Âlî

Gelibolulu Mustafa Âlî bin Ahmed bin Abdülmevlâ Çelebi (born 1541 Gallipoli; died 1600 in Jeddah) was an Ottoman historian and bureaucrat, possibly of Croatian or Bosnian origin. He was a major literary figure of the second half of the sixteenth century, producing innumerable works. He is most famous for his immense work of world history, entitled Künhü'l-aḫbār ("The Essence of History"), covering the period from the creation of the world to the year 1000 of the Islamic calendar (1591/2 AD). He also wrote poetry as well as a work of nasihatname literature entitled Nuṣḥatü's-selāṭīn (Counsel for Sultans).