Selim I's accession, 918/1512

تولية سليم الأول السلطنة سنة 918هـ

25 April 1512 CE · 18 Safar 918 AH

Al-Salabi dates Bayezid II's cession of the sultanate to his son Selim I at 18 Safar 918 / 25 April 1512 1; Ibn al-Imad adds that Selim contested the ailing father for the throne, that he yielded it, then died near Guria 2.

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The Gunpowder Empires
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

Summary

Al-Salabi dates Bayezid II's cession of the sultanate to his son Selim I at 18 Safar 918 / 25 April 1512 1.

In Ibn al-Imad

Ibn al-Imad adds that when Bayezid's illness worsened, his son Selim contested him for the throne; he yielded it, then died near Guria 2.

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السلطان سليم شاه بن عثمان· بايزيد الثاني

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Prince Ahmad, son of Bayezid II· بايزيد الثاني· السلطان سليم شاه بن عثمان· Algiers enters Ottoman sovereignty (1519)· The battle of Chaldiran and the entry into Tabriz· Battle of Ridaniyya and the fall of the Mamluk state· Capture of Cairo· The Battle of Marj Dabiq and Selim's Entry into Egypt

Sources

  1. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 174-175
  2. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 485
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Prince Ahmad, son of Bayezid II

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