Fakhr al-Din Ali, better known as Sâhib Ata or Sâhip Ata, was a

vizier A vizier (; ; ) is a high-ranking political advisor or Minister (government), minister in the Near East. The Abbasids, Abbasid caliphs gave the title ''wazir'' to a minister formerly called ''katib'' (secretary), who was at first merely a help ...

of the

Sultanate of Rum The Sultanate of Rum was a culturally Turco-Persian Sunni Muslim state, established over conquered Byzantine territories and peoples (Rum) of Anatolia by the Seljuk Turks following their entry into Anatolia after the Battle of Manzikert in 1071. ...

who held a number of high offices at the court of the

from the 1250s until his death in 1288. He was the dominant personality in

Anatolia Anatolia (), also known as Asia Minor, is a peninsula in West Asia that makes up the majority of the land area of Turkey. It is the westernmost protrusion of Asia and is geographically bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean ...

after the death of the Mu'in al-Din Parwana in 1277. He established numerous charitable foundations in cities across the

. Fakhr al-Din's sons, the '' Sahib Ataids'', established a short-lived principality centered in

Afyonkarahisar Afyonkarahisar (, 'poppy, opium', ''kara'' 'black', ''hisar'' 'fortress') is a major city in western Turkey. It is the administrative centre of Afyonkarahisar Province and Afyonkarahisar District. Its population is 251,799 (2021). Afyon is in the ...

, which the neighboring

Germiyanids Germiyan, or the Germiyanids (Old Anatolian Turkish: ; or ), were a dynasty that controlled parts of western Anatolia from to 1429. Germiyan first appeared in 1239 near Malatya tasked with suppressing the Babai revolt. The tribe relocated to ...

absorbed ''ca.'' 1341.

Monuments

Fakhr al-Din left many architectural monuments. In 1271 he funded the construction of the Gök Medrese in

Sivas Sivas is a city in central Turkey. It is the seat of Sivas Province and Sivas District.İl Beledi ...

.J.M. Rogers, “The Çifte Minare Medrese at Erzurum and the Gök Medrese at Sivas: A Contribution to the History of Style in the Seljuk Architecture of 13th Century Turkey” ''Anatolian Studies'', Vol. 15. (1965), pp. 66.

References

1288 deaths Viziers of the Sultanate of Rum History of Afyonkarahisar Province Year of birth unknown {{turkey-politician-stub