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بركات بن محمد

بركات بن محمد

Barakat ibn Muhammad, Sharif of Mecca — on hearing of the Mamluk defeat he submitted to Selim I and handed him the keys of the Kaaba; Selim confirmed him as emir of Mecca and the Hijaz with wide powers 1.

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The Gunpowder Empires
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Arabia
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Barakat ibn Muhammad, Sharif of Mecca 2.

His submission

al-Salabi reports that when news reached him of the killing of the Mamluk sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri and his deputy Tuman Bay at the hands of the Ottomans, he hastened to pledge hearing and obedience to Sultan Selim I. He handed him the keys of the Ka'ba and some relics 2.

Selim confirmed him as sharif of the Hijaz, amir over Mecca and the Hijaz, and granted him wide powers 2.

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Submission of the Hijaz to the Ottomans

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السلطان سليم شاه بن عثمان· Mecca· Submission of the Hijaz to the Ottomans

Sources

  1. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 191
  2. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p.191
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السلطان سليم شاه بن عثمان

The Ottoman sultan whom Suyuti's student calls the ninth century's calamity — killer of his brothers, breaker of the East's lord, victor at Marj Dabiq over sultan Qansuh al-Ghawri, then swift conqueror of Egypt. Al-Salabi adds his love of Persian poetry and history, his taking historians and poets to the field, the dervish-rag embassy to Shah Ismail before Chaldiran, his argument that the Safavid threat — not western 'satiation' — turned the state east, and his use of the title 'khalifa of God through the earth's length and breadth' from 920/1514, before Syria and Egypt fell — the book's case against the later story of a caliphate surrendered by the last Abbasid of Cairo.