Şükrullah was born in 1388 and his father's name was Şehâbeddin Ahmed.
In 1449, Şükrullah was sent by Murad II to the Qoyunlu Confederacy as an ambassador.
[3] It was here, during the reign of Jahan Shah, that he encountered a history of the Oghuz Turks.
He wrote a famous universal history in the 1460s Persian language named Behcetü't-Tevârîh or Bahjut al-tâwarikh (Joy of Histories) and presented it to Mahmud Pasha Angelovic.
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