Taşköprüzade or Taşköprülüzade Ahmet (Arabic: طاشكبري أحمد), pseudonym of Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá ibn Khalīl Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah (Arabic: أحمد بن مصطفى بن خليل طاشكبري; Bursa, 3 December 1495 – Istanbul, 16 April 1561), was an Ottoman Turkish historian and chronicler living during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, who was famous for his great biographical encyclopedia titled Al-Shaqāʾiq al-Nuʿmāniyya fī ʿUlamāʾ al-Dawla al-ʿUthmāniyya (Arabic: الشقائق النعمانية في علماء الدولة العثمانية, lit.
[1] The family was known as Taşköprülüler because Ahmet's grandfather had been a professor at the Muzafferiye madrassa of Hayreddin Halil in Taşköprü, Kastamonu.
[1] Taşköprülüzade received his first education from his father, Muṣliḥ al-Dīn Muṣṭafā, and his uncle, Kemaleddin Kasım, in Ankara and Bursa, and completed his studies in Istanbul.
Later, he worked as a professor in various madrassa in Skopje and Edirne.
He was appointed judge (qāḍī) of Bursa in 1545, and of Istanbul in 1551.