Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. IIEvliya Çelebi
History
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
Ala-ud-dín Páshá, son of Osmán, who died in 804, lies near his brother
Orkhán; Shehinshah, son of Báyazíd, Governor of Brússa; Mohammed,
son of Báyazíd, and eight princes, brethren of Sultán Selím I. whom
he killed when going to war against Prince Ahmed, are all buried
near Orkhán; also their brother Ahmed, who was strangled by Sultán
Selím, and sent hither. Ahmed’s son Murád fled into Persia to Sháh
Ismaíl, where, at the end of three years, he died, and was buried at
Erdebíl near Sháh Safí. Two of his brothers, who had been spared at
the intercession of the Ulemas, died soon after at Constantinople
of the plague, and are also buried here. Korkúd, who, persecuted by
Selím I., was taken at Tekkah in a cavern with his governor Piáleh and
killed (909), is buried beneath a private cupola near Murád II. Prince
Hassan, the son of the latter and brother of Mohammed II., and who was
strangled soon after his brother had ascended the throne, also lies
buried here near his father; so also does the unfortunate Jem, brother
of Báyazíd II. He left a cup, which, on being emptied, filled itself
again, an ape who played at chess, and a white parrot, which was dyed
black by Sa’dí the poet of Jem, and presented to the Sultán, saying
the words, “We belong to God, and return to him.” In the year 1074
(1663) at the time I, poor Evliyá, was on my journey to Vienna, Prague
and Lúnjat (?), I conversed with many monks and patriarchs, who all
agreed that Jem was the son of a French princess, who being taken by
Mohammed II. at the point of the Seraglio, became the mother of Báyazíd
and Jem. The three brethren of Mohammed I., Issa, Mússa and Súleimán
are buried beside their father Báyazíd at his mosque. There are many
hundred princes and princesses buried at the mosque of Sultán Murád II.
at Brússa. Chelebí Sultán Mustafa, the son of Súleimán I., who, on the
invidious report of his enemies, was strangled by his father, also lies
buried in the tomb of Sultán Murád II., though some pretend that he
is interred on the east side of the courtyard gate of Eyyúb, but that
is another Mustafa, who was killed by his father Súleimán, he having
had two sons of that name. The first six Ottoman emperors are also
interred at Adrianople, at the heads of their coffins a particular kind
of turban is placed, with folds and farthingales, after the fashion of
Mahán, the town of Khorassán. The art of folding them has descended
from father to son in one family, from the time of the Seljúkians.
Mahommed II. wore the Urf (a kind of round turban), and the conqueror
of Egypt wore the Selímí; may it last for ever!
_Visit to the Tombs of Saints at Brússa._
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