History of Sahib Giray Khan
A Crimean court physician's account of the reign of Khan Sahib Giray, 1532 to 1551.
Full title History of Sahib Giray Khan: Ottoman text with French translation, notes and glossary by Ozalp Gokbilgin (Ankara 1973); Russian translation 2018
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Remmal Hoca (Nidai Celebi Mehmed Ankaravi, d. 1568), physician-astrologer of the khan
Remmal Hoca (Nidai Çelebi Mehmed Ankaravi, died 1568) was physician, astrologer and confidant to Sahib Giray, khan of Crimea. He wrote this Ottoman Turkish history around 1551 to 1553 from what he saw: the khan's campaigns at Kazan (1532), on the Muscovite frontier, in Circassia and at Astrakhan (1546), and the khan's murder in 1551. The atlas does not hold the text: the corpus knows Gökbilgin's 1973 Ankara edition with French translation, and it keeps full text only for works published before 1929 or openly licensed.
- How they knew
- Eyewitness
- Who “Tartar” means here
- The Crimean Tatars of Sahib Giray's khanate, with the neighbouring Kazan and Astrakhan khanates, the Nogays and the Circassians.
- Why read it
- The earliest Crimean court history, telling the years of Muscovy's conquest of Kazan and Astrakhan as seen from Bakhchysarai.
- Watch out
- It is a panegyric of the khan, and the scan on offer is a copyrighted 1973 edition uploaded by a third party. The atlas quotes nothing from this work.
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The fine print
How we know
firsthand The author saw the places or people described.
firsthand: court physician and confidant of Sahib Giray, eyewitness to the khan's campaigns (Kazan 1532, Moscow frontier, Circassia, Astrakhan 1546) and his murder in 1551
Research notes
- Panegyric; author identity (Remmal Hoca = Nidai) established by Turkish scholarship. IA scan is a copyrighted 1973 edition uploaded by a third party.
Why it matters
Contemporary Crimean Tatar chronicle of the 1530s-1540s, the decades of Muscovy's conquest of Kazan and Astrakhan seen from Bakhchisaray; the earliest Crimean court history.
Places named
Crimea; Kazan; Astrakhan; Circassia; Kuban; Muscovite frontier
Peoples named
Crimean khanate; Kazan khanate; Astrakhan khanate; Nogays; Circassians; Muscovy; Ottomans