Taceddin Ahmedi
{{Short description|Turkish poet (1334–1413)}}
File:Iskendername.jpg in the middle of the 15th century. Biblioteca Marciana]]
Taj ad-Dīn İbrahim ibn Hizr Ahmedi (1334–1413), better known by his pen name Taceddin Ahmedi, was an Ottoman poet and is considered one of the greatest poets in 14th-century Anatolia. Born in Anatolia, he went to study with Akmal al-Din al-Babarti in Cairo as a young man. As a young man, he visited the court of Bayezid I, and attended the Battle of Ankara, where he met and wrote and qasida to Timur. After Bayezid's death, he dedicated his work titled the Iskendername, the earliest surviving work of Ottoman historiography and the earliest Turkish rendition of the Alexander Romance, to Süleyman Çelebi.{{Cite book |last=Tezcan |first=Baki |title=Writing history at the Ottoman court: editing the past, fashioning the future |date=2013 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-00857-2 |editor-last=Çıpa |editor-first=H. Erdem |location=Bloomington |pages=30 |chapter=The Memory of the Mongols in Early Ottoman Historiography |editor-last2=Fetvaci |editor-first2=Emine}}{{Cite journal |last=Silay |first=Kemal |date=1992 |title=Aḥmedī's History of the Ottoman Dynasty |url=https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/modules/hi2e9/programme/ottomans/silay_ahmedis_history_of_the_ottoman_dynasty.pdf |journal=Journal of Turkish Studies |volume=16 |pages=129–200}}{{Citation |last=Mengüç |first=Murat Cem |title=Bringing the Past Together: Ahmedi’s Narrative of Ottoman History and Two Later Texts |date=2019-11-06 |work=Studies in Islamic Historiography |pages=127–128 |url=https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004415294/BP000015.xml |access-date=2024-03-19 |publisher=Brill |language=en |doi=10.1163/9789004415294_006 |isbn=978-90-04-41529-4}} Modeled after the Iskandarnameh of Neẓāmī, in over 8,000 couplets Ahmedi uses the outline of Alexander the Great's conquests to offer discourse on philosophy, theology, and history. After his patron's death, he was in the employ of Mehmed I until his death in 1413.{{Cite web|title=Taceddin Ahmedi {{!}} Turkish author|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Taceddin-Ahmedi|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2020-05-18}}