Editing Osman I (section)

=== Sources about Osman's early life ===
[[File:Behcetü't Tevârîh ilk sayfa.png|thumb|right|Index of ''[[w:tr:Behcetü't-Tevârîh|Behcetü't-Tevârîh]]'', one of the Ottoman sources that talks about Osman's origins]]
The exact date of Osman's birth is unknown, and very little is known about his early life and origins due to the scarcity of sources and the many myths and legends which came to be told about him by the Ottomans in later centuries.<ref name=birth/><ref>{{Cite book|first=Caroline|last=Finkel|title=Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300–1923|page=12|publisher=Basic Books|date=2005|quote=Beyond the likelihood that the first Ottoman sultan was a historical figure, a Turcoman Muslim marcher-lord of the Byzantine frontier in north-west Anatolia whose father may have been called Ertuğrul, there is little other biographical information about Osman.}}</ref> The reason for the lack of information available about this stage of Osman's life is due to the fact that the oldest-known source about this time period was written about a hundred years after Osman's death. Among these sources are: ''Destan-ı Tevarih-i Al-i Osman'' (The Oral history of the Ottomans), written in the 14th century by the Ottoman poet and court physician {{ill|Tâceddîn İbrâhîm bin Hızîr|tr|Ahmedî}} better known as Ahmedî (1334–1413), ''{{ill|Behcetü't-Tevârîh|tr}}'' (The Joy of histories) by [[Şükrullah]] (d. 1464), and ''{{ill|Tevarih-i Âl-i Osman|tr|Tevârîh-i Âl-i Osman (Âşıkpaşazâde)}}'' (History of the Ottomans) by Derviş Ahmed Âşıkî, known as [[Âşıkpaşazâde]] (1400–1484). Additionally, these remaining sources are not the originals, but rather copies, or copies of the copies that were rewritten over the years, leading to a probable loss or altering in the information.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Zachariadou|first1=Elizabeth A.|title=Osmanlı Beyliği, 1300–1389|date=1997|publisher=Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı|isbn=9789753330671|place=İstanbul|page=150|language=tr|trans-title=Ottoman Beylik, 1300–1389}}</ref> In fact, it is accepted that Ottoman, European, and Byzantine sources are not very reliable when considering the origins of Osman and his clan. On one hand, the oldest known records originally written by the Ottomans all date back to the period that followed the [[Fall of Constantinople|conquest of Constantinople]] (1453 CE). On the other hand, none of the Byzantine historians did refer in their writings to the origin of the Ottomans. As for European historians, these Turkic Muslim peoples were outside of their interest. However, that changed after a century of this period, when the Ottomans began to pose a threat to Europe.<ref name="Hallak">{{cite book|last1=Ḥallāq|first1=Ḥassān|url=https://archive.org/details/elhilalymohamad_gmail_20170919_0414/page/n25|title=Tārīkh al-shuʻūb al-Islāmīyah al-ḥadīth wa-al-muʻạṣir|publisher=Dar al-nahḍah al-ʻArabīyah|year=2000|edition=1st|place=Beirut|pages=16–17|language=ar|trans-title=Modern and Contemporary History of the Muslim peoples|access-date=23 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200319231046/https://archive.org/details/elhilalymohamad_gmail_20170919_0414/page/n25|archive-date=19 March 2020}}</ref>