Codex Hanivaldanus Osmanlı anoniminin məlumatları əsasında Şah İsmayılın siyasi portreti

The article we present is dedicated to the description of the historical and political portrait of Shah Ismail based on the information of the 16th century Ottoman source called Codex Hanivaldanus. The source’s name is related to the name of Philip Hanivald von Eckersdorf, a Silesian nobleman who was the first person to introduce it to European historiography and readers. Philip Hanivald who came to Istanbul on a diplomatic mission acquired this Ottoman manuscript by unknown author, managed to get it translate it and then publish in Frankfurt-Main in 1591. Because manuscript was anonymous, it become known in historiography as the Codex Hanivaldanus. Codex Hanivaldanus was written in the genre of the Tevarih Al-i Osman tradition, which was forming during the classical period of Ottoman historiography, but nevertheless, the author while narrating and interpreting the events and the activities of historical figures presents his own original approach, which differs from the narratives put forward by the official Ottoman ideology. In particular, the personal qualities of Shah Ismail, his activity as a political lider and statesman are interpreted in a rather positive aspect. According to the author when Shah Ismail saw that his grandfather “Uzun Hasan’s state weakened due to numerous rebellions and civil wars, he restored the state, bringing it back from disintegration to order, from upheaval to peace, from threatening disruption to former prosperity». Such characterizing of the Gizilbash ruler can be evaluated as a certain discourse in Ottoman historiography and ideological thought of the time. In the article the data of Codex Hanivaldanus are compared with the information of other synchronous historical sources of the period.