Kayki Mustafa Bey

Kayki Mustafa Bey, also Kaykı Bey (قيقى بك), was an Ottoman army officer who played a role in the Ottoman–Safavid War (1578–1590).

From 1579, Kayki Mustafa Bey together with Asafi attempted to protect the recently conquered Shirvan against the counter-attacks of the Safavids.[2] Osman Pasha ordered them to reinforce the fortifications of Qabala castle. In 1581, the Qabala castle was captured following a Safavid ruse, in which they used fall letters and Korans to suggest the war had ended. The Ottoman garrison fell, and Asafi was captured by the Safavid Kizilbas.[3]

Asafi was kept in captivity in Qazvin and Isfahan, but was released in 1585, finally rejoining Osman Pasha.[4]

  • Qabala castle (reconstruction)
  • Âsafi and Kaykı Bey in the Qabala Castle besieged by the Safavids
  • The Safavid ruse

References

  1. ^ Tunca 2017, p. 74, Figure 2.
  2. ^ Taner 2020, p. 39.
  3. ^ Taner 2020, p. 40.
  4. ^ Fleischer 1986, p. 82.

Sources

  • Fleischer, Cornell H. (1986). Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: The Historian Mustafa Ali (1541-1600). Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691638447.
  • Taner, Melis (2020). "Illustrated Manuscripts Attributed to Baghdad". Caught in a whirlwind: a cultural history of Ottoman Baghdad as reflected in its illustrated manuscripts. Leiden; Boston: Brill. ISBN 978-9004412699.
  • Tunca, Ece (2017). Depiction of the enemy through the eyes of an Ottoman bureaucrat (thesis) (PDF). Budapest: Central European University.
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