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Qalender Çelebi

قلندر جلبي

Qalender Çelebi, leader of the rising in Konya and Maraş under Süleyman; al-Salabi puts thirty thousand followers at his back and quotes 'some historians' that he made killing a Sunni Muslim and assaulting a Sunni woman a claim to the greatest reward — a saying the book attributes to the historians rather than asserts itself 1. His rebels killed Bahram Pasha sent against them, until Grand Vizier Ibrahim Pasha won over some of his men, his forces dwindled, and he was defeated and killed 2.

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Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Anatolia
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Summary

Qalender Çelebi, leader of the rising in Konya and Maraş under Süleyman 1.

The rising

Al-Salabi puts thirty thousand followers at his back, and quotes 'some historians' that he made killing a Sunni Muslim and assaulting a Sunni woman a claim to the greatest reward — a saying the book attributes to the historians rather than asserts itself 1.

The end

Bahram Pasha, sent to suppress him, was killed by the rebels; then Grand Vizier Ibrahim Pasha's stratagem won over some of Qalender's men, his forces dwindled, and he was defeated and killed 2.

Sources

  1. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 200-201
  2. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 201
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