Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49214-0 — The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam Christopher Markiewicz Index More Information Index al-ʿAbbasi, ʿAbd al-Rahim, 144 ʿAli Qushji, 67 Abbasid Caliphate, 6–7, 29, 151, 159 Amasya, 78, 82, 125 and juridical definitions of imamate, 243, Amid, 126–28, 130–31, 135 286 Amir ʿAbd al-Vahhab, 71, 103, 115, 124 under the Mamluk Sultanate, 109–10, amir al-muʾminin, 109, 245, 283 156, 173, 244 Amir Sharaf (governor of Bidlis), 34 ʿAbd al-Hayy, Mawlana Nizam al-Din, 46, Amir Zakariya, 69 182 Anatolia, 3–4, 8–10, 66, 84, 101, 118, 125, Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, 245 128, 204, 234, 268 Abu Saʿid (Ilkhanid ruler), 29 Ankara, battle, 80 Abu Yusuf Qaraquyunlu, 46 Anushirvan, 100 adab (belles lettres), 76 apocalypticism, 2, 8, 68, 74, 172, 278–79, Adaʾi-yi Shirazi, 91, 144, 187 284 Adam (prophet), 68, 161, 259, 261, 266, Aqquyunlu Sultanate, 69, 240, 289 268 and centralizing reforms, 6, 56–57, 64 al-Ahkam al-sultaniya (The Ordinances of and confederate clans, 60 Government), 243 central administration, 42–43 Ahmad b. Ughurlu Muhammad, 62–64, 71 chancery, 27, 45, 51, 154, 179, 181, 242, Ahmed (son of Bayezid II), 77–80, 99–100, 258, 273 113, 117 civil wars, 60, 65 Ahmed Pasha (Hain), 280 confederate clans, 68 Akhlaq-i Jalali (Jalalian Ethics), 248–49 expansion of, 39–40 Akhlaq-i Nasiri (Nasirean Ethics), 247 provinicial administration, 60 Akkirman, 50, 52, 179 relations with Mamluks, 40 Akşehir, 71 relations with Ottomans, 10, 40 Alan-Qo’a, 165 rivalry with Qaraquyunlus, 33 Aleppo, 82, 123, 132–35, 200 succession, 80 Alexandria, 106, 114, 142 ʿArabgir, 130 ʿAli b. Abi Talib, 30, 32, 68, 163 Arabic language, 5, 108, 198 and Timurid legitimacy, 165 and epistolography, 44 reverence for, 4 and historical writing, 198–200 ʿAli Pasha (Hadım), 82, 89, 93, 98, 100, 230 and scholarship, 5 335 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49214-0 — The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam Christopher Markiewicz Index More Information 336 Index Arabic language (cont.) Belgrade, 275 and the urban notable class, 35 Bengal, 152 at the Ottoman court, 144, 290 berat, 129 sciences of, 215 Bergama (Pergamon), 211 Arghun, 170 Bidlis, 33–34, 131 Armenia, 33 Bidlisi, Husam al-Din ʿAli, 19, 32, 60, 71, Arznama (Epistle of the Military Parade), 254 241 relationship with Amir Sharaf, 34 ʿÂşık Çelebi, 84, 95, 118, 187–88, 190, relationship with Muhammad Nurbakhsh, 235–36, 238 25, 31 ʿÂşıkpaşazade, 199, 238 relationship with Uzun Hasan, 34 Astarabadi, Fazlullah, 163–64 scholarship, 30, 37 astrology, 32, 171, 176, 265 use of khilafat-i rahmani, 242 ʿAtufi, Hızır ibn ʿÖmer, 198–99 views on khilafa, 254 ʿAynışah Sultan (daughter of Bayezid II), 62 Bidlisi, Idris, 136 Azerbaijan, 4, 33, 65, 68, 71, 73, 122–23, as advisor to Selim, 118, 125, 134 125, 167 appraisal of Hasht bihisht, 229 assessment of Ahmad b. Ughurlu Badiʿ al-zaman (The Wonder of the Age), 81 Muhammad, 63 Baghdad, 29, 244 assessment of Aqquyunlu reforms, 64 Bahjat al-tavarikh (The Splendor of History), assessment of Hasht bihisht, 201 199 assessment of Rustam b. Maqsud, 61 Balkans, 3–4, 8, 66, 84, 128–29, 152, 178 birth, 19, 27 Barani, Ziyaʾ al-Din , 203 career in Aqquyunlu chancery, 26, 42, Bardaʿi, Shams al-Din, 187 47 Barlas (tribe), 155, 165 connections with Muhammad Nurbakhsh, Basiri, 71, 91, 186, 235 19 Bayandur (clan), 26, 39, 46, 60, 64, 68, 80 cosmological views, 19, 254, 261, 268 Bayandur b. Rustam, 48–49 criticisms of Ottoman administration, Baybars, 173 139–42 Bayezid I, 80, 158, 228 death, 143, 145 Bayezid II, 50, 52, 65, 72, 75, 77, 79–80, education, 36–38, 253, 257 86–87, 181, 217, 258 as envoy for Selim, 123, 126 death, 113 forefathers, 34 and his high-ranking statesmen, 82 and his prose collection, 57 and historical writing, 192, 198 horoscope, 32 as khalifa-yi rahmani, 242 interests in astrology, 38 library, 169, 177, 198–99, 214 as medrese instructor, 96 as patron, 19, 89, 92, 105, 186, 188, 226, mid-life crisis, 74 234 migration to Ottoman lands, 66, 72 and poets, 78 as munshi al-mamalik,58 relationship with Ahmad b. Ughurlu pilgrimage, 100, 104 Muhammad, 61 as poet, 58, 82 relationship with Müʾeyyedzade, 82 position in Bayezid’s court, 80, 94–98 succession, 99, 101 relationship with Bayezid II, 102, in the work of Bidlisi, 117, 220, 259, 265, 227 267, 270 relationship with father, 19, 26, 36, 75, Bayhaqi, Abu’l-Fazl Muhammad, 200 254 Baysunghur b. Yaʿqub (Aqquyunlu ruler), 60 relationship with Ismaʿil, 19, 70, 73, 103, Bayzavi, Nasir al-Din, 37 114–15 Bedreddin Simavi, Şeyh, 4 relationship with Jami, 39 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49214-0 — The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam Christopher Markiewicz Index More Information Index 337 relationship with Müʾeyyedzade, 84, 88, correspondence 93, 186 and ideological discourses, 10, 63, 183, relationship with Prince Ahmed, 79 272 relationship with Qazi ʿIsa, 57, 59 personal letters, 180 relationship with Selim I, 19, 99, 114–15, and soliciting patronage, 85 142 and sovereign titles, 46, 179, 273 self identity, 35–36 Crown of Deeds. See Taj al-maʾasir self reflection, 74, 144 Custom of Kingship. See Qanun-i views on his own career, 39 shahanshahi views on history, 21, 214–16 views on Muhammad Nurbakhsh, 32 Damascus, 115, 123, 135, 138, 173, views on Persian belles lettres,36 272 views on Shah Ismaʿil, 72 al-Damiri, Kamal al-Din Muhammad, 141, views on the Qizilbash, 120 189, 207 waqf in Bidlis, 34 Davani, Abu Yazid, 59 at Yaʿqub’s court, 19, 41–42, 57 Davani, Jalal al-Din, 52, 59, 61, 67, 82, 180, Bihishti (Ottoman historian), 91 241, 248–50, 257, 263 al-Bistami, ʿAbd al-Rahman, 172, 179, 207 Davud Pasha, 82 Bıyıklı Mehmed Pasha, 127–30, 132–33 Daylami, Sharaf al-Din Mahmud, 58–59, 69, Book of Kings. See Shahnama 71 Book of the Truth of Certainty. See Kitab Dede ʿUmar Rushani, 59 haqq al-yaqin Delhi, 1, 158 Bosnia, 85, 119 Delhi Sultanate, 168, 198, 203 Buda, 280 Dibacha-yi jamiʿ-i sultani (Preface to the Bursa, 49, 179 Sultanic Compendium), 161 Dimetoka, 113 Cairo, 105–6, 123, 135, 139, 201, 211, 214 Diyarbakr (region), 33, 62, 122, 126, 128, cardinal virtues, 247, 253, 283 132 Celalzade Mustafa, 78, 178, 236, 238–39, Diyarbakri, ʿAbd al-Samad, 112 277, 280 Dizdarzade Mehmed Çelebi (Anadolu compared to Shah Qasim Tabrizi, 237, defterdarı), 140 284 Dukakinzade Ahmed Pasha, 123 Cem (son of Mehmed II), 50, 99 Çemişgezek, 130 Ebu’l-Fazl Mehmed, 100, 117, 139–40, 143, Central Asia, 3, 54, 156 145–46, 277 Çermik, 130 and kanunnames, 277 Chaghatayid Khanate, 157 career, 115, 145 Chahar maqala (The Four Discourses), 168, education, 84 223 Ebu’l-Mevahib (son of Bidlisi), 100, 115 Chaldiran, battle, 122–23, 125, 236, 273 Ebu’s-Suʿud, 55, 280, 282 Chinggis Khan, 7, 57, 155, 157, 165 Echelons of the Dominions and the Chinggisid prestige, 6–7, 29, 156, 286 Hierarchies of Professional Paths. See Comfort of Hearts and Wonder of Delights. Tabaqatü’l-memalik ve derecatü’l- See Rahat al-sudur wa ayat al-surur mesalik Comparison of Fasting and Feasting. See Edirne, 114, 118, 122, 274 Munazara-yi ruza va ʿid Eğribos, 85 Compendium of Revelation and Egypt, 3, 11, 104, 106, 121, 128, 134–35, Interpretation. See Jamiʿ al-tanzil 138, 141, 173, 244, 280 waʾl-taʾwil Eight Paradises. See Hasht bihisht confessional ambiguity, 4, 70 Elbistan, 134 Constantinople, 8, 66, 185, See also Istanbul Ergani, 130 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49214-0 — The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam Christopher Markiewicz Index More Information 338 Index Erzincan, 62, 99 Hafiz-i Abru, 163, 176, 200, 204, 208, Essence of History. See Künhü’l-ahbar 212–13, 215, 224 Euphrates, 40, 127 historical thought, 210–11 use of zikr-i jamil, 225–26 al-Farabi, 205, 246 Hafiz-i Shirazi, 208, 223 Farrukhi, 166 Hakkari, 130 Fars, 58, 136, 209 Halimi Çelebi, 118 Fatehpur Sikri, 1 Hama, 277 fathnama (victory proclamation), 48, 50–52, Hamadan, 48, 69, 73 63, 179, 289 Hamadani, Mir Sayyid ʿAli, 255–56, Feridun Beğ, 51, 142, 274 269 Firdawsi, Abu’l-Qasim, 108–9, 185, 200, Hanafi school of law, 84, 243 225 Harput (Elazığ), 128, 130 al-Futuhat al-makkiyya (Meccan Hasht bihisht (The Eight Paradises), 19, Revelations), 255 63, 66–67, 73, 79, 82, 84, 102, 108, 117, 183, 191, 205, 260, Galata, 125 263 Garden of Purity. See Rawzat al-safaʾ Bidlisi’s defense of, 112, 231 Gaza, 136 composition, 87, 89–90, 112, 214 Gelibolu, 276 criticisms of, 93, 230–33 Georgia, 99 discourse on ideal ruler, 265 Gevher Sultan (daughter of Mehmed II), 62 impact on Ottoman historical writing, ghaza, 10, 51, 86, 158, 178, 271 91–92 in the Delhi Sultanate, 168 main themes, 220 in Hasht bihisht, 22, 222 manuscript recensions, 118, 146, in Ottoman ideology, 233 193 against the Qizilbash, 273 reception, 88, 193, 230 al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid, 243 rewards for, 90 Ghazavat-i Sultan Salim (The Campaigns of and statesmen of Bayezid’s reign, 226 Sultan Selim), 190 structure, 220 Ghaznavids, 167 and zikr-i jamil,86 ghuluww (exaggeration), 68 Hatibzade, 52 Ghurids, 168, 223 Hayali, 95 Gift of the Poor One to the Master of the Hayat al-hayawan (The Life of Animals), Throne.