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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · BİRİNCİ BÂB · YEDİNCİ FASIL

Sultan Nâsıreddîn Süleyman Hân

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 2, p. 339 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Mehmet ARSLAN

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Sâbık Amasya hükümdârı Sencer Hân'ın şehzâdesi olup pederinin [349] vefâtından sonra Amasya hükümdârı olmuşdur. Fakat Keyhusrev Hân'ın küçük şehzâdesi olup Kayseriyye vâlîliğinde bulunan Sultân Alâ'eddîn Keykubâd, Erzurum hükümdârı olan Tuğrul Hân ile birâderi Keykâvus Hân aleyhine akd-i ittifâk ederek tahsîl-i saltanata kıyâm etmekle Tuğrul Hân, Sultân Keykubâd'a mu'âvenet için 606'da bir kuvve-i askeriyye ile gelip Amasya'yı zabt ve Süleyman Hân'ı ber-taraf etmiş ve kendi şehzâdesi Mes'ûd Hân'ı Amasya vâlîliğine nasb edib Kayseriyye'ye gitmişdir.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was the son of Sencer Hân, the former ruler of Amasya, and became ruler of Amasya after his father's death. But when Sultan Alâeddîn Keykubad, the younger son of Keyhusrev Hân, who was serving as governor of Kayseri, formed an alliance with Tuğrul Hân, the ruler of Erzurum, against his brother Keykâvus Hân and rose up to seize the sultanate, Tuğrul Hân came in 606 [1209-10] with a military force to help Sultan Keykubad, took Amasya and removed Süleyman Hân. He also appointed his own son Mesud Hân as governor of Amasya and went on to Kayseri.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • sâbık: former, previous
  • şehzâde: son of a ruler, prince
  • akd-i ittifâk: forming an alliance, making an agreement
  • tahsîl-i saltanata kıyâm: rising up to seize the throne
  • mu'âvenet: help
  • kuvve-i askeriyye: military force
  • ber-taraf etmek: to remove, to dismiss from office
  • nasb etmek: to appoint

The Event in Seljuk History

The persons named in the text belong to the Anatolian Seljuk dynasty. İzzeddin Keykâvus, the elder son of Keyhusrev, and Alâeddin Keykubad, the younger, spent years together in exile after their father left the throne to their uncle Rükneddin Süleyman in 1196 and went abroad; when Keyhusrev returned to the throne in 1205, Keykâvus was sent to Malatya and Keykubad to Tokat as melik. The post that Hüsameddin calls "governorship of Kayseri" appears in the sources as melik of Tokat.

The joint action of Keykubad and Tuğrul Şah, the melik of Erzurum, appears in the Seljuk sources in the struggle for the throne immediately after Keyhusrev's death (1211). When Keykâvus was proclaimed sultan in Kayseri, Keykubad besieged the city, and his uncle Tuğrul Şah, melik of Erzurum, and the Armenian King Levon II joined the siege. The siege was inconclusive, and Tuğrul Şah returned to his own land. After Süleyman Şah II put an end to the Saltukids around 1202, Erzurum was governed for about thirty years by two meliks of the Seljuk dynasty, Tuğrul Şah and his son Cihan Şah.

This information differs from Hüsameddin's account at several points. Hüsameddin ties the event to 606 (1209-10), whereas Keykubad's open revolt against his elder brother belongs to the period after their father's death, the year 1211. Moreover, their father Keyhusrev was still alive at that date. No record was found in the sources that Tuğrul Şah seized Amasya and appointed his son Mesud as governor there; this information rests on the account Hüsameddin relates from the Gülşen-i Tevârîh and could not be verified from another source. No information was found in the sources examined about Süleyman Hân, ruler of Amasya, or his father Sencer Hân either.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 2, p. 339–339. amasya.bel.tr

Academic studies

Other sources

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