Sultan Murad (Aq Qoyunlu)

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Sultan Murad
The envoy Qanbar Aqa, sent by Shah Ismail I, before Sultan Murad. Made by Mo'en Mosavver, Isfahan, c. 1670
Sultan of the Aq Qoyunlu
Reign1497–1508
PredecessorAhmad Beg
SuccessorIsmail I (Safavid Iran)
Born1483
Died1514 (aged 24)
Ruha, Diyar Bakr
SpouseBeglu Khatun
IssueHasan
Ya'qub
Jan Agha Khanum
FatherYa'qub Beg
MotherGawhar-Sultan Khanum
ReligionSunni Islam

Sultan Murad (also spelled Sultan-Murad) (persian: سلطان مراد) was the last sultan of the Aq Qoyunlu from 1497 to 1508. After losing his kingdom to the Safavid Shah Ismail I (r. 1501–1524), he fled to Diyar Bakr, where he was eventually killed by Shah Ismail's Qizilbash soldiers at the end of 1514.

Reign

Civil war in the Aq Qoyunlu realm

Born in 1483, he was a son of

Shirvanshah Farrukh Yasar (r. 1465–1500).[1] Residing in Shirvan, Sultan Murad (who was 7 years old at that time) was summoned by the rebel commanders Ayba-Sultan Bayandur and Qasim Beg Purnak, who wanted to make him the figurehead of their government. When the news reached the Aq Qoyunlu ruler Ahmad Beg (r. 1497), he raised a large army and marched towards the rebels. On 13–14 December 1497, a battle ensured near the city of Isfahan, where the forces of Ayba-Sultan Bayandur and Qasim Beg Purnak defeated the numerically superior army of Ahmad Beg, who was killed.[2]

In the spring of 1498, while Ayba-Sultan was on his way to the capital

Fars. They subsequently deposed the Afshar governor of the provincial capital Shiraz and installed Sultan Murad there.[5]

War with Shah Ismail I

In the winter of 1502 or 1503, the Safavid Shah Ismail I (r. 1501–1524) contacted Sultan Murad, who was in control over Fars and Persian Iraq, albeit mostly nominally. In reality, his governors ruled freely. The provinces were in disarray due to ceaseless war, famine, plague, and oppression by the Aq Qoyunlu dignitaries. Ismail reminded Sultan Murad of the common lineage that the Safavids and Aq Qoyunlu shared, and offered him part of Persian Iraq in exchange for compliance, or war would occur.[6]

Although some of Murad's men advocated peace, the latter marched towards Ismail (whose army totalled 12,000) at head of 70,000 men, but was defeated near the city of

Mar'ash, and would later be killed in Ruha, Diyar Bakr by Shah Ismail's Qizilbash soldiers at the end of 1514.[6][8] In the words of the 16th-century Safavid chronicler Qazi Ahmad Qomi, after Sultan Murad's death "the line of the Aq Qoyunlu sultans was severed."[8]

Offspring

Sultan Murad was survived by several of his offsprings. He had two sons with the daughter of Ala al-Dawla Bozkurt, Beglu Khatun: Hasan and Ya'qub, but nothing is known about them.[9] He also had a daughter, Jan Agha Khanum, who would eventually marry the Safavid governor-general of Khorasan and guardian of the Safavid prince Abbas, Ali-Qoli Khan Shamlu (died 1589).[8]

References

  1. ^ Woods 1999, pp. 149–150, 270 (note 32).
  2. ^ Woods 1999, pp. 158–159.
  3. ^ Woods 1999, p. 159.
  4. ^ Woods 1999, pp. 160–161.
  5. ^ Woods 1999, p. 161.
  6. ^ a b Savory 1965, pp. 71–72.
  7. ^ Savory 1965, pp. 72–73.
  8. ^ a b c Woods 1999, p. 166.
  9. ^ Venzke 2017.

Sources

  • Quiring-Zoche, R. (1986). "Āq Qoyunlū". Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, Vol. II, Fasc. 2. New York. pp. 163–168.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Savory, Roger M. (1965). "The Consolidation of Safawid power in Persia". Jahresband. 40. De Gruyter: 71–94.
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  • Venzke, Margaret L. (2017). "Dulkadir". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Stewart, Denis J. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam. Vol. III. E. J. Brill.
Preceded by Sultan of the Aq Qoyunlu
1497–1508 		Succeeded by
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