Âşıkpaşazâde (Âşıkî), the Ottoman historian born at Elvan Çelebi and raised in Amasya: his life, the Tevârîh-i Âl-i Osmân and the verse in his chronicle.
Âşıkpaşazâde Pîr Ahmed Çelebi, author of the Tevârîh-i Âl-i Osmân: his birth at Elvan Çelebi, his Amasya years, the differences between the sources and the verse in his chronicle.
The six-couplet mesnevi passage in which Âşıkpaşazâde says he is eighty-six and explains why he set out to write the legends of the House of Osman.
The poem with the refrain "'Osmân" that follows Osman Gazi's election as bey and praises him as the warrior who girded on the sword of faith and became the key to the gate of Islam.
The seven-couplet poem that, after Osman Gazi's dream, addresses "my son" and with the refrain "senüñdür" counts out victory, sovereignty and world dominion one by one.
Âşıkpaşazâde's three couplets announcing the conquest of İnegöl in 699 (1299-1300): the town taken, the warriors' booty, the land of unbelief laid waste and Osman's arrival.
Six couplets with the refrain "'Osmân" written for the first Friday sermon read in Osman Gazi's name at Karacahisar: lineage, holy war, justice and a state proclaimed for all eternity.
The prayer with which Âşıkpaşazâde opens his chronicle: five couplets addressed to the God who makes being out of nothing, hides faults and shows His beauty to the heart.
The last eleven couplets of the opening mesnevi of Âşıkpaşazâde's chronicle: his aim, his claim that his line was born with the Ottoman house, and the turn to chapter one.
Osman Gazi's first night raid on İnegöl, the return home and a humble plea to God, in three couplets that end with the prayer "weep, poor Osman".
Four couplets, each ending with the refrain "Allahu ekber", spoken after the battle in which Osman Gazi defeated Kalanoz and his brother Saru Yatı fell as a martyr.
Where Osman Gazi takes Karacahisar and gives its houses to the gazis, three couplets speak of blessings from God, of eating and feeding others, and of each man's portion.
Four couplets on leaving a good or bad name, spoken after the Seljuk sultan Alâeddin defeated the Tatars who had burned Ereğli and the place came to be called "Taşak Yazısı".
Justice and generosity as Osman's law: five couplets closing the chapter in which Sultan Alâeddin sends a banner and the nevbet, and the custom of standing for it is explained.
Three couplets advising cunning towards the enemy, at the end of the chapter in which Osman Gazi wins the trust of the infidels of Bilecik by defending their rights at the Eskişehir market.
Guided by Köse Mihal, the gazis cross the Sakarya to Göynük, Tarakçı Yenicesi and Gül-Falanoz and return with booty but no captives; four couplets follow the raid.
Asked why he shows such respect to the infidels of Bilecik, Osman Gazi answers "they are our neighbours"; three couplets then urge neighbourliness and caution together.
Four couplets on Köse Mihal's daughter's wedding, where the tekfurs plotted against Osman Gazi and the tekfur of Bilecik conceived the idea of a wedding trap.
Four couplets on the wedding of the tekfur of Bilecik at Çakırbınarı, the gazis hidden among bales of felt, and the taking of Bilecik, then of Yarhisar and İnegöl.
Lülüfer Hatun, the Yarhisar bride given to Orhan and mother of Murad Han and Süleyman Paşa, praised in six couplets beginning "Zihî devlet ki Hatun buldı Hak'dan".
Five couplets of the second piece under the same heading, on Bilecik and Yarhisar passing to Osman Gazi and defending Osman's ruse against the tekfurs' treachery.
Osman Gazi questions the market toll, fixes it at two akçe a load and orders that a timar pass to the holder's son; eight couplets close the chapter on his law.
Once the alliance of the tekfurs of Bursa, Adranos, Kestel and Kite is broken and Kite falls, two couplets show Osman as a builder who destroys and rebuilds.
Two couplets at the end of the chapter in which Osman Gazi has two siege towers built against Bursa, Aktemür's on the side of the hot springs and Balabancuk's on the mountain side.
The battle of Koyunhisarı summed up, the martyr Aytoğdı mourned and Yahşı Fakıh named as the source of the legends, in eight couplets signed Âşıkî.
Five couplets with the refrain "kopdı" showing Osman as a thunderbolt sprung from the line of Gök Alp, after Köse Mihal's conversion and the taking of Lefke, Akhisar and Geyve.
Sent alone for the first time against Karaçepüş and Karatekin, with Akça Koca, Konur Alp, Gazi Abdurrahman and Köse Mihal, Orhan is praised in three couplets.
The tekfur of Karatekin refuses Orhan's offer "give me this fortress" and his stronghold is sacked; six couplets follow, each ending with the word "kal'a", fortress.
After the fall of Karatekin the frontier gazis press İznik: Konur Alp raids in Akyazı, Akça Koca towards İzmit, Gazi Rahman beside them, in five couplets.
Five couplets spoken as Orhan, having taken Atranoz, camps at Pınarbaşı before Bursa, announcing that Bursa will be taken without bloodshed.
The tekfur of Bursa gives up his fortress through Köse Mihal for thirty thousand florins and leaves dressed in sackcloth: a scene told in three couplets.
Bursa surrenders to Orhan in 726 (1326), the tekfur's treasure is shared among the gazis and the vizier Saroz explains why the fortress was given up; six couplets follow.
Three couplets on a father who guides his son and a son who takes counsel, after the question whether Osman Gazi was still alive when Bursa was taken.
Osman Gazi asks Orhan to bury him under the Silver Dome and to reject words God has not commanded; two couplets on intention close the chapter of his testament.
Four couplets on love, signed Âşıkî, in the middle of the story of the daughter of the tekfur of Aydos, who saw in a dream a man lifting her out of a pit and lost her heart to him.
A letter tied to a stone, Samandıra set on fire for a feigned retreat and Gazi Rahman climbing the wall on a rope: the taking of Aydos in five couplets.
Six couplets ending with the pen name Âşıkî, in which Âşıkpaşazâde says he began writing his history at eighty-six, on the day Bayezid II set out on his campaign to Moldavia.
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