Mawsillu

Mawsillu (lit. 'from Mosul';[1] Azerbaijani: Mosullu; Turkish: Musullu) was a Turcoman tribe active in Aq Qoyunlu and the Safavid Empire.

History

According to Turkish historian Tufan Gündüz and John E. Woods, they one of the three biggest tribes dominating Aq Qoyunlu along with Purnak and Bayandur tribes.[2] Their main controlled areas were near Diyarbakr and Erivan. They supported Hamza beg (a son of Qara Yuluq Osman) and Sheykh Hasan at earliest times but later changed their allegiance to Uzun Hasan after 1451 during Aq Qoyunlu succession crisis.[3] They acquired the city of Ruha in later in 1475 following the defeat of Uways (brother of Uzun Hasan).

After the conquests of Ismail I they were important players in the Qizilbash administrative structure with Ismail twice marrying into the tribe and his successor, Shah Tahmasp I being born to a Mawsillu mother.[4]

Famous members
  1. Begtash beg Mawsillu — founder of the clan.
    1. Osman (d. 1436)
    2. Muhammad (d. 1451)
    3. Amir I (d. 1473) — Commander in Chief of Aq Qoyunlu army, governor of Shiraz
      1. Hasan
      2. Gulabi I (d. 1491, killed by Suleyman beg Bijan) — Governor of Erzinjan[5]
        1. Qayitmaz (d. 1507)
        2. Amir II (d. 1522) — Governor of Erzinjan, Guardian of Tahmasp I
        3. Ibrahim (d. 1528) — Governor of Baghdad, killed by Zulfaqar beg[6]
          • Malik Qasim (d. 1529)
        4. Ali beg (or Nokhud Sultan)
          1. Zulfaqar (d. 1529) — Captured Baghdad from Ibrahim and submitted to Ottomans, but was on the orders of Tahmasp I
          2. Ali — killed Zulfaqar on the orders of Tahmasp I
        5. Ismail
      3. Fulad
    4. Sufi Khalil (d. 1491, killed by Suleyman beg Bijan)— Governor of Shaki and Shiraz, regent of Baysonqor
      1. Jamshid (d. 1491)
      2. Shaykh Ali (d. 1492)
      3. Ismail (d. 1496)
      4. Yusuf
      5. Begtash
      6. Ya'qub
    5. Nur 'Ali
    6. Pir Umar
    7. Qutb al-Din
    8. Hamza beg
      1. Mihmad beg
        1. Tajlu Khanum — Consort of Ismail I, mother of Tahmasp I
    9. Bakr (d. 1491, killed by Suleyman beg Bijan) — Governor of Astarabad
      1. Isa beg[7]
        1. Musa beg — Governor of Azerbaijan
        2. Sultanum Begum — Consort of Tahmasp I, mother of Mohammad Khodabanda and Ismail II

References
  1. Ali Anooshahr (2018). Turkestan and the Rise of Eurasian Empires: A Study of Politics and Invented Traditions. p. 70. ISBN 9780190693565.
  2. Gündüz, Tufan (2007). Anadolu'da Türkmen aşiretleri : Bozulus Türkmenleri, 1540-1640 (First ed.). İstanbul: Yeditepe Yayınevi. p. 157. ISBN 978-975-6480-82-3. OCLC 713963769.
  3. Woods, John E. (1999). The Aqquyunlu : clan, confederation, empire (Rev. and expanded ed.). Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. ISBN 0-585-12956-8. OCLC 44966081.
  4. Newman, Andrew J. (2009). Safavid Iran: rebirth of a Persian empire (Pbk. ed.). London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 1845118308.
  5. Khachatrian, Alexander (2003). "The Kurdish Principality of Hakkariya (14th-15th Centuries)". Iran & the Caucasus. 7 (1/2): 37–58. doi:10.1163/157338403X00024. ISSN 1609-8498. JSTOR 4030969.
  6. Ghereghlou Kioumars. “The Question of Baghdad in the Course of the Ottoman-Safavid Relations According to the Safavid Narrative Sources.” In İslam Medeniyetlerinde Bağdat (Medinetü’s Selam) Uluslararası Sempozyum, 7–8–9 Kasım, 2008, 2 Vols., edited by İsmail Safa Üstün 603–21. Istanbul: M.Ü. İlahiyat Fakültesi Vakfı Yayınları 2011.
  7. "ESMĀʿIL II – Encyclopaedia Iranica". www.iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
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