Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 384 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ
Amasya vâlisi Tuğrâk Bey’in mahdûmu yâhût dâmâdı olup İshâk Baba mücâdelesinde dîn ü millet tarafdârı olarak kanlı muhârebelere girdi. Babâiyye ordusunun inhizâmında büyük hizmetler gördü. Meşâhîr-i ümerâdan oldu.
640’da Bâycu Noyin muhârebesine de iştirâk etdi. Saltanât-ı Selçûkiyyeyi takviye uğrunda çalışıp 654’de [399] ber-hayât görüldü. Ba’dehû vefât etdi. Mahdûmları Tuğrul, Tûlî, Bayat Beyler’dir. Bunlara ve evlâdına İnaçoğuları dendi.
He was the son or son-in-law of Tuğrak Bey, governor of Amasya, and in the struggle with İshak Baba he sided with religion and the state and entered bloody battles. He rendered great services in the rout of the Babaî army. He became one of the well-known emirs.
In 640 [1242-43] he also took part in the battle against Baycu Noyan. Working for the strengthening of the Seljuk state, he was seen alive in 654 [1256-57]. Then he died. His sons were Tuğrul, Tûlî and Bayat Beys. They and their descendants were called the İnaçoğulları.
The "struggle with İshak Baba" in the text is the Babaî Rebellion of 1240. At the head of the rebellion, which broke out in the time of the Anatolian Seljuk Sultan II. Gıyâseddin Keyhusrev, stood Baba İshak; Baba İshak was the successor of Baba İlyas, his sheikh, who had founded a lodge in the village of Çat (today İlyas) near Amasya. The rebellion began at Kefersud and spread quickly to central Anatolia. Baba İlyas was besieged and captured in Amasya by Seljuk forces and executed; Baba İshak, marching on Konya to avenge him, was defeated and killed on the Malya plain near Kırşehir. The sources differ here: a study of the inscriptions of Amasya writes that Baba İshak, named as the leader of the rebellion, was executed in Amasya on the castle tower by Hacı Mübârizeddin Armağan, the city's subaşı. In Hüsameddin's own account, Tuğrak Bey, though a disciple of Baba İlyas, did not allow Baba İshak's activities in Amasya.
In the entry, İnaç Bey is mentioned as one of the emirs who stood on the side of the state in this conflict and whose services counted in the breaking up of the Babaîs. The text presents him as the son or son-in-law of Tuğrak, governor of Amasya. It is plausible that he is the same as the Şemseddin İnaç whom Hüsameddin names as Tuğrak's son when describing the İnekler Tomb, but in the title of this entry the epithet is given as Şerefeddin; whether the two epithets belong to the same person or to two different persons could not be determined.
Tuğrak Bey was the emir who was governor in Amasya in the time of Alâeddin Keykubad I. In the inscription, dated 631 [1233-34], of the Tuğrakiye Mosque or Madrasa in Amasya he is named Emîr-i şikâr (master of the hunt) Hacı Tuğrak; according to this study he died in 632 [1234-35]. The madrasa does not exist today. In the tomb right beside it, it is stated that Tuğrak Bey, his son Şemseddin İnanç Bey, his grandson İzzeddin Balaban and other descendants are buried, and that the tomb, called at first the İnanç Tomb, took the name İnekler ("Cows") Tomb in time because of popular tales. Hüsameddin also records this folk tale (the Flood of Noah and the story of the cows).
The Battle of Kösedağ, in which Baycu Noyan defeated the Anatolian Seljuk army, is dated in the sources to 641 [1243]; Hüsameddin wrote 640. The difference of one year does not tell us whether he meant another conflict or gave the date slightly differently; we could not determine this. It is recorded that after the battle the Seljuk vizier fled to Amasya.
No information could be found in other sources about İnaç Bey's sons Tuğrul, Tûlî and Bayat Beys, or about the name İnaçoğulları.
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