Ya'qub Beg ibn Hasan Beg, sultan of the two Iraqs

يعقوب بك بن حسن بك سلطان العراقين

c. 1491 CE · 896 AH

Ya'qub Beg — Uzun Hasan's successor as Aq Qoyunlu 'sultan of the two Iraqs'; died 896 1.

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Roles
sultan
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia · Levant & Iraq
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Baqi Yazdi · 'Abd al-Haqq al-Sunbati · Taj al-Din 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn 'Arabshah · Shihab al-Din Ibn 'Ubba al-Maqdisi · Al-Balawi, Ahmad ibn Ali

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Overview

Ya'qub Beg b. Hasan Beg, the Aq Qoyunlu "sultan of the two Iraqs"; he succeeded his father Uzun Hasan over the two Iraqs and Azerbaijan, and died in 896 1.

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Child of
Hasan Bak the Aq Qoyunlu (Uzun Hasan)

People and things also explored

السلطان محمد الفاتح· Hasan Bak the Aq Qoyunlu (Uzun Hasan)· Ahl al-Diwan (those paid from the state register of soldiers and officers, and the rules of their conditions and distribution)· Ahl al-Hall wa al-Aqd (those who loose and bind: the men of power whose choice confirms the imam)· Ahl al-Mahalla (the people of a quarter, their imam, call to prayer, and their part in the oath and blood money where a body is found)· Islamic management· Experience versus service, and self-development· The nominal group technique

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 359
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