Ottoman fleet underway. Tarikh-i fath-i Şikloş ve Ustūrğün ve Ustunībelgirād, c. 1545 (Topkapı Palace Library, H.1608)

1480–1564, Ottoman EmpirePolymath of Süleyman’s court — mathematician, swordsman, historian — who invented the Ottoman topographical miniature. His Beyân-ı Menâzil records every halt of the 1534–35 Iraq campaign as a bird’s-eye city portrait with no human figures, a uniquely Ottoman genre. Full biography →

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