Qara Yusuf

قره يوسف

Draft card for Qara Yusuf, founder of the Qara Qoyunlu power in Azerbaijan and Iraq, named from an open reference description (Wikidata); his entry in Hasan Ibrahim's Tarikh al-Islam is not yet checked on the page, so no dates are given.

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Roles
sultan
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia · Levant & Iraq
Identifiers
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Fought by
Ahmad ibn Uways al-Jalayiri

People and things also explored

السلطان الظاهر برقوق· تمرلنك· Ahmad ibn Uways al-Jalayiri

Sources

  • Tarikh al-Islam — Hasan Ibrahim Hasan
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السلطان الظاهر برقوق

First Circassian sultan (784), founder of the Burji line; he imprisoned and deposed caliph al-Mutawakkil, repented and restored him, was himself jailed at Karak then restored in 792, ruling till Shawwal 801.