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Åžeyh Muslihiddin
Şeyh Muslihiddin Nureddinzade (1502 – 1574) was a Sufism, Sufi saint and scholar of the Ottoman Empire who belonged to the Khalwati order, Khalvati order. He was born near the city of Plovdiv in Ottoman Bulgaria. He went to Istanbul after being initiated as a Sufi, and gained many prominent followers, including Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and Aziz Mahmud Hudayi, among others. He was very influential in getting Sultan Suleiman to join the campaign for the Siege of Szigetvár. He died a few years later and was buried in Edirnekapı, Fatih, Edirnekapı, but his grave was lost forever during the construction of the Edirnekapı Martyr's Cemetery. Life and career According to the Ottoman chronicler , Mustafa Muslihuddin was born in 1502 (A. H. 908) in Anbarlı village (now Zhitnitsa, Plovdiv Province), located near the city of Plovdiv, Filibe in Ottoman Bulgaria. His father was Nureddin Ahmed Efendi, who is said to have been a Sayyid (a descendant of prop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottoman Bulgaria
The history of Ottoman Bulgaria spans nearly 500 years, beginning in the late 14th century, with the Bulgarian–Ottoman Wars, Ottoman conquest of smaller kingdoms from the disintegrating Second Bulgarian Empire. In the late 19th century, Bulgaria was Liberation of Bulgaria, liberated from the Ottoman Empire, and by the early 20th century it was Bulgarian Declaration of Independence, declared independent. The brutal suppression of the Bulgarian April Uprising of 1876 and the public outcry it caused across Europe led to the Constantinople Conference, where the Great Powers tabled a joint proposal for the creation of two autonomous Bulgarian vilayets, largely corresponding to the ethnic boundaries drawn a decade earlier with the establishment of the Bulgarian Exarchate. The sabotage of the Conference, by either the British Empire, British or the Russian Empire (depending on theory), led to the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), whereby the much smaller Principality of Bulgaria, a se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
