ABSTRACT
This is not entirely due to lack of material. Admittedly the chronicles which purport to cover this period are very meagre on the events of the middle decades of the sixteenth century (their meagreness probably reflects a real absence of significant political developments in these years), but towards the end of the century their information becomes more copious. For the following century, although there is no historian of the stature of Ibn Iyas or alJabarti, there is a group of smaller chronicles, written in Arabic and Turkish, which are surprisingly full and detailed where the writers are dealing with events during their own lifetimes.
