Aşıkpaşazade

Aşıkpaşazade (c. 1400–after 1484), born Dervish Ahmed near Amasya, pen name Aşıkî, was an early Ottoman historian and a dervish of the Vefai order. The great-grandson of the poet Aşık Pasha, he grew up in a Sufi lodge, made the hajj in 1437 and spent time in Egypt. He campaigned with the Ottoman army in the Balkans, fighting at Kosovo in 1448 and at the conquest of Constantinople.

Late in life he wrote the Tevarih-i Al-i Osman, a vernacular chronicle of the Ottoman dynasty drawing heavily on his own experience; he was still writing in 1484.