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Document Details : Title: Lettres de HÄ'ir Beg, dernier Nâ'ib Mamlouk d'Alep, à la porte Ottomane Author(s): BACQUÉ-GRAMMONT, Jean-Louis , CHOUMET, Michel , DUCATEZ, Guy Journal: Journal Asiatique Volume: 281 Issue: 3-4 Date: 1993 Pages: 235-315 DOI: 10.2143/JA.281.3.2006124 Abstract : Hā'ir Beg is well known as a Mameluke renegade, secret counsellor of SelÄ«m I before and during the Ottoman conquest of the Mameluke Empire, and who was finally appointed as the first Governor General of Ottoman Egypt (1517-1522). We have discovered in the archives of the Topkapi Sarayi Museum in Istanbul twelve original documents in Turkish and in Arabic - most of them unknown until now - issued by or related to him when he was still the Mameluke nÄ'ib of Aleppo (1506-1516), and addressed to the Sublime Porte or to the Ottoman Sultan. This documentation, published here, brings useful information about the evolution of the Ottoman-Mameluke relations in general and of the nÄ'ib himself in particular. |
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