title: İbretnüma-yı Devlet Adlı Eserin Yazarı Mustafa Kesbî midir? XVIII. Yüzyılın Bilinmeyen Bir Tarihçisi Üzerine Notlar
abstract: Mustafa Kesbî Efendi is known as the author of İbretnüma-yı Devlet, which is an important work written in the second half of the 18th century and an oftenused source for this period. However, there is no detailed information about the identity of Mustafa Kesbî Efendi. Information about this author is usually derived from the anecdotes written about himself in the above-mentioned work. Nonetheless, it is also a topic of discussion whether there really was a man called Mustafa Kesbî. Kesbî is a ps
journal: Tarih Dergisi / Turkish Journal of History