Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. IIEvliya Çelebi
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Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. II
Evliya Çelebi
Caucasus, South -- Description and travel; Istanbul (Turkey) -- Description and travel; Turkey -- History
_Tomb of Sultán Murád I. Khodavendkiár._
He is buried on the west side of Brússa near old Kaplíjah, beneath a
large cupola. His arrow, bow and quiver are suspended over his tomb,
with the bloody garment in which he was killed, which fills with awe
all who enter this monument. He was seventy years of age at his death,
and had reigned thirty.
_Short account of Ilderím Báyazíd._
Besides numerous conquests in Anatolia, he passed seven times in
one year from Anatolia into Wallachia, and from the rapidity of his
movements obtained the name of Ilderím (lightning). He besieged
Constantinople, and established a judge there and seven hundred
Mussulmán houses, from the Flour-hall (Ún-kapán,) to the Rose mosque,
also the tribunal of Sirkejí-tekkieh. In the year 805, following bad
advice, he waged war against Timúr, and was taken prisoner by the
Tátárs after a long struggle on foot, his horse having been thrown
down. Brought into Timúr’s presence, he was well received, but Timúr
asking what he would have done to him had he been taken prisoner;
Báyazíd answered, that he would have put him into an iron cage and
carried him to Brússa; Timúr being enraged, ordered Báyazíd to be put
into an iron cage, intending to carry him into Persia, but he died on
the third day of a violent fever.
His son, Mohammed Chelebí pursued Timúr’s army towards Amasia, and had
tents made of the skins of the slain Tátárs, beneath which he sheltered
himself from the sun. The field of the above defeat is called to this
day, in derision, Táshak-ová-sí. He took his father’s corpse from the
enemy, and buried it in the mosque he had built at Brússa. Sultán Murád
IV. when he visited this tomb gave it a kick with his foot, saying:
“What, do you lie here like a monarch,—you, who have destroyed the
Ottoman honour, and have been made prisoner by the Tátárs?” At the
moment he kicked the coffin, he cried, “Oh! my foot!” and from that day
was attacked by the gout, which carried him off. He lived sixty-seven
years, and reigned fourteen; he was a great Emperor, but could not war
against fate.
The Divines of his time were Sheikh Sheháb-ud-dín Sivássí, who
composed a valuable commentary, and is buried at Aya Solúk (Ephesus);
Khosb-ud-dín of Nicæa, who contended much with Timúr; Simánezadeh
Sheikh Bedr-ud-dín Ben Mahmúd Ben Abd-ul-azíz; the Mevlená Fakhr-ud-dín
the Persian, buried at Adrianople; Sheikh Abd-ur-rahím Ben Emír Azíz
Merzifúní, and the Sheikh Pír Elías, who is buried at Amasia.
_Short account of Sultán Mohammed I._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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