السلطان سليم شاه بن عثمان
السلطان سليم شاه بن عثمان
c. 22 September 1520 CE · 9 Shawwal 926 AH
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 1.
At a glance
- Roles
- Ruler · military
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era · The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Anatolia · Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Overview
Selim I, sultan of the Ottoman state, son of Bayezid II 2.
His reign
Jarmardi al-Nasiri, a student of al-Suyuti, described him as "the trial of the ninth century (AH)", because of his wars with his brothers and their sons, then his fight against the lord of the East, and his entry into Egypt after Marj Dabiq, where its sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri was killed. He said that Egypt had never been struck by the like of it since it became a land of Islam 1.
His death
He died on the ninth of Shawwal 926 AH, aged fifty-four. His reign lasted nine years and eight months 2.
Connections
- Child of
- بايزيد الثاني
- Parent of
- سليمان القانوني
- Participated in
- موقعة جالديران ودخول تبريز· وقعة الريدانية وسقوط دولة المماليك· وقعة مرج دابق ودخول سليم مصر· خضوع الحجاز للعثمانيين
People and things also explored
موقعة موهاكس وفتح بودا· معاهدة الامتيازات العثمانية الفرنسية· فتح رودس العثماني· حصار فيينا الأول· حملة سليمان الخادم على الهند· السلطان محمد الفاتح· سليم الثاني· بركات بن محمد
Sources
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p. 798
- al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001), p. 198-199
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “السلطان سليم شاه بن عثمان”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/selim-i-ottoman/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.