Mehmet Esad Efendi (c. 1789–1848) was an Ottoman historian.
[1][2] He was court historian to Sultan Mahmud II, who commissioned him to write up the events of the dissolution of the Janissary corps.
His book Uss i-zafer ("The Foundation of the Victorious"), is the chief source of information on this incident.
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