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The Qāḍī Burhān al-Dīn Oghullarï

783–800/1381–98

North-eastern Anatolia

Qāḍī Burhān al-Dīn stemmed from an originally Oghuz family settled in Kayseri, and became vizier and atabeg to the weak, later rulers of the Eretna Oghullarï (see above, no. 125) until, shortly after the demise of the last of that line, he personally assumed power in their dominions. In the midst of a life spent in ceaseless military activity, defending his beylik against the Ottomans, Qaramānids and other local rivals, and also against the Mamlūks and Aq Qoyunlu, he found time to function actively as a scholar and poet. However, after his death at the hands of the Aq Qoyunlu, the notables of Sivas eventually handed over the city to the Ottoman Bāyazīd I.

Khalīl Ed’hem, 387–8; Zambaur, 155; Bosworth-Merçil-İpşirli, 307–9.

EI² ‘Sīwās’ (S. Faroqhi); İA ‘Kadi Bürhaneddin’ (Mirza Bala).

İ. H. Uzunçarşih, Anadolu beylikleri, 162–8.

Yaşar Yücel, Kadi Burhaneddin ve devleti (1344–1398), Ankara 1970.