İbrahim Peçevi

إبراهيم أفندي البجوي (بتشوي)

İbrahim Efendi of Pečuj, known as Peçevi; finance-service trained, he served in the army's accounts, became defterdar of the second fiscal district in 1014/1605–06 then defterdar of Bosnia, where he died; the Sicill-i Osmani calls him 'a man of resolve and wise counsel' who 'wrote an excellent History' — the well-known Tarih-i Peçevi 1.

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Historian · Scholar
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Anatolia
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İbrahim Efendi of Pečuj, known as Peçevi, the Ottoman historian 1.

Finance-trained, he served in the army's accounts, became defterdar of the second fiscal district in 1014/1605–06, then defterdar of Bosnia, where he died. The Sicill-i Osmani calls him 'a man of resolve and wise counsel' who 'wrote an excellent History'; while defterdar of Timișoara he had a mosque built in Istanbul 1.

Sources

  1. Sicill-i Osmani — Mehmed Süreyya (ed. Nuri Akbayar, transcr. Seyit Ali Kahraman) , vol. 3, 'İbrahim Efendi Peçuylu'
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islam.museum contributors. “İbrahim Peçevi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/pecevi-ibrahim/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.

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