قلندر جلبي

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.