Introducing Hasht Behesht and its Author

Idris Badlisi (856_ 926 A.H.) was a famous scribe, historian, and scientist of the ninth and early tenth Hegira centuries, contemporary with Sultan Yaqoob Aq Quyunloo, Iranian Shah Esmail Safavi, Sultan Bayazid II, the early government of Sultan Saleem I in the Ottoman Empire. His most important and renowned work is H, a book about the Ottoman history.Following the style and literature of works, such as Tarikh-e-Jahangosha by Atamalek joveini, Tarikh-e-Vassaf by Vassaf al-Hazara, Tarikh-e-Moeeni by Moeen al-Din Yazdi, and Tarikh-e-Zafarnameh Teimoori by Mowlana Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi, Hasht Behesht has a technical and artificial prose. This work includes biographies of the first eight Ottoman kings, beginning with Othman Beig Ghazi and ending with Sultan Bayazid II and Yavooz Sultan saleem. The present article tries to introduce this work, its author, and a few manuscripts.