Mawsillu (; az, Mosullu; tr, Musullu) was a Turcoman tribe active in

Aq Qoyunlu The Aq Qoyunlu ( az, Ağqoyunlular , ) was a culturally Persianate,Kaushik Roy, ''Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400–1750'', (Bloomsbury, 2014), 38; "Post-Mongol Persia and Iraq were ruled by two tribal confederations: Akkoyunlu (Wh ...

and the

Safavid Empire Safavid Iran or Safavid Persia (), also referred to as the Safavid Empire, '. was one of the greatest Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often conside ...

History

According to Turkish historian Tufan Gündüz and John E. Woods, they one of the three biggest tribes dominating

along with Purnak and Bayandur tribes. Their main controlled areas were near Diyarbakr and

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. They supported Hamza beg (a son of Qara Yuluq Osman) and Sheykh Hasan at earliest times but later changed their allegiance to

Uzun Hasan Uzun Hasan or Uzun Hassan ( اوزون حسن; fa, اوزون حسن; 1423 – January 6, 1478; where ''uzun'' means "tall" in Oghuz Turkic) was a ruler of the Turkoman Aq Qoyunlu state and is generally considered to be its strongest ruler. Ha ...

after 1451 during Aq Qoyunlu succession crisis. They acquired the city of

Ruha In Mandaeism, Rūha ( myz, ࡓࡅࡄࡀ, lit=spirit/breath; also known as Namrūs or Hiwat (Ewath; myz, ࡏࡅࡀࡕ)) is the queen of the World of Darkness (''alma ḏ-hšuka'') or underworld. She rules the underworld together with her son Ur ...

in later in 1475 following the defeat of Uways (brother of

). After the conquests of

Ismail I Ismail I ( fa, اسماعیل, Esmāʿīl, ; July 17, 1487 – May 23, 1524), also known as Shah Ismail (), was the founder of the Safavid dynasty of Safavid Iran, Iran, ruling as its King of Kings (''Shahanshah'') from 1501 to 1524. His re ...

they were important players in the Qizilbash administrative structure with Ismail twice marrying into the tribe and his successor, Shah

Tahmasp I Tahmasp I ( fa, طهماسب, translit=Ṭahmāsb or ; 22 February 1514 – 14 May 1576) was the second shah of Safavid Iran from 1524 to 1576. He was the eldest son of Ismail I and his principal consort, Tajlu Khanum. Ascending the throne after t ...

being born to a Mawsillu mother.

Famous members

# Begtash beg Mawsillu — founder of the clan. ## Osman (d. 1436) ## Muhammad (d. 1451) ## Amir I (d. 1473) — Commander in Chief of Aq Qoyunlu army, governor of Shiraz ### Hasan ### Gulabi I (d. 1491, killed by Suleyman beg Bijan) — Governor of Erzinjan #### Qayitmaz (d. 1507) #### Amir II (d. 1522) — Governor of Erzinjan, Guardian of

####* A daughter — married to Ruzagi family ####*#

Sharafkhan Bidlisi Sharaf al-Din Khan b. Shams al-Din b. Sharaf Beg Bedlisi (Kurdish: شەرەفخانی بەدلیسی, ''Şerefxanê Bedlîsî''; fa, شرف‌الدین خان بن شمس‌الدین بن شرف بیگ بدلیسی; 25 February 1543 – ) was ...

####* Marjumak (d. 1528) ####* Ma'sum (d. 1528) ####* Gulabi II (d. 1528) #### Ibrahim (d. 1528) — Governor of

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, killed by Zulfaqar beg ####* Malik Qasim (d. 1529) ####** Muhammadi (foster brother of

) #### Ali beg (or Nokhud Sultan) ##### Zulfaqar (d. 1529) — Captured

from Ibrahim and submitted to

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, but was on the orders of

##### Ali — killed Zulfaqar on the orders of

#### Ismail ### Fulad ## Sufi Khalil (d. 1491, killed by Suleyman beg Bijan)— Governor of Shaki and Shiraz, regent of

Baysonqor Ghiyath ud-din Baysunghur, commonly known as Baysonqor or Baysongor, Baysonghor or (incorrectly) as Baysunqar, also called Sultan Bāysonḡor Bahādor Khan (1397 – 1433) was a prince from the house of Timurid dynasty, Timurids. He was known as ...

### Jamshid (d. 1491) ### Shaykh Ali (d. 1492) ### Ismail (d. 1496) ### Yusuf ### Begtash ### Ya'qub ## Nur 'Ali ## Pir Umar ## Qutb al-Din ## Hamza beg ### Mihmad beg ####

Tajlu Khanum Tajlu Khanum ( fa, تاجلو خانم) or Tajli Begum (), also known by her title of Shah-Begi Khanum (), was a Turkoman princess from the Mawsillu tribe and principal consort of Ismail I. Family While Italian writer Angiolello and Irania ...

— Consort of

, mother of

## Bakr (d. 1491, killed by Suleyman beg Bijan) — Governor of Astarabad ### Isa beg{{Cite web, title=ESMĀʿIL II – Encyclopaedia Iranica, url=https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/esmail-02, access-date=2021-01-08, website=www.iranicaonline.org #### Musa beg — Governor of Azerbaijan ####

Sultanum Begum Sultanum Begum ( 1516 – 1593), also known as Kadam Ali Soltan Khanum, was the first wife and chief consort of the second Safavid king Tahmasp I. She was the mother of her husband's successor, Ismail II, and the mother of Mohammad Khodabanda, wh ...

— Consort of

, mother of

Mohammad Khodabanda Mohammad Khodabanda (also spelled Khodabandeh; fa, شاه محمد خدابنده, born 1532; died 1595 or 1596), was the fourth Safavid shah of Iran from 1578 until his overthrow in 1587 by his son Abbas I. Khodabanda had succeeded his brothe ...

and

Ismail II Ismail II (; Born Ismail Mirza; 31 May 1537 – 24 November 1577) was the third Shah of Safavid Iran from 1576 to 1577. He was the second son of Tahmasp I with his principal consort, Sultanum Begum. By the orders of Tahmasp, Ismail spent twent ...

References

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