Jimri

Jimri (

Baibars’ invasion of Mongol-dominated Anatolia

in 1277. He was executed the following year. The pretender’s formal name, ‘Ala al-Din Siyavush, appears on his few coins, but the sources almost invariably refer to him by the derogatory nickname Jimri, or “the Miser”.

Following Baibars' withdrawal from Anatolia, the

Mehmed Bey vizier

at the prompting of his supporters.

The

Rum and guardian of the young Kaykhusraw III, Fakhr al-Din Ali, to whom the khan had given the region in fief

, reestablished his authority. Jimri was captured and burned at the stake; his corpse was then flayed, stuffed with straw, and set upon a donkey which toured the cities of Anatolia as a warning to the Turkmen.

The Jimri affair, like the

Babai Revolt) Jimri, though a puppet of the Karamanids, succeeded in uniting much of Turkish Anatolia against a foreign occupier. The chancellery established in his name was the first in Anatolia to use Turkish

as its official language.

Sources

Claude Cahen, Pre-Ottoman Turkey: a general survey of the material and spiritual culture and history, trans. J. Jones-Williams (New York: Taplinger, 1968), 289–92.
Stephen Album, Checklist of Islamic Coins, 2nd edition (1998), p. 62.

See also

Sources