Prince Ahmad, son of Bayezid II

الأمير أحمد بن بايزيد الثاني

Prince Ahmad, brother of Sultan Selim I; al-Salabi places him foremost among the Ottoman princes who fled to the Mamluks, whose court meant to use them as instruments of trouble against Selim 1.

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The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Anatolia · Egypt & Nile
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Summary

Prince Ahmad ibn Bayezid II, brother of Sultan Selim I 1.

Flight to the Mamluks

Al-Salabi places him foremost among the Ottoman princes who fled Selim to the Mamluk state, whose court meant to use these princes as instruments of trouble against Selim — one of the reasons the book lists for the Ottoman turn to annexing Syria and Egypt 1.

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Child of
بايزيد الثاني
Sibling of
السلطان سليم شاه بن عثمان

People and things also explored

Selim I's accession, 918/1512· 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. 184-185
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Selim I's accession, 918/1512

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