[1] He was a secretary of the Imperial Divan but his Tarih was not servile and included criticisms of the sultans directly.
[1] It also offered one of the most detailed accounts of the cold and famine in Anatolia in the 1590s related to the Little Ice Age.
The Tarih-i Selâniki was not widely incorporated into Ottoman historiography and was only partially published in 1864; the publication itself contained many edits, modifications, and interpolations.
The historian Solakzade Mehmed Hemdemi is thought to have had access to it, but did not credit the work to Selaniki specifically.
[1] The chronicle begins with a description of torrential rain falling in September 1563 and concludes with the escape of Kasim Voyvoda from his captors in May 1600.