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Qazi Burhanaddin

Died in 1398

Qazi Burhanaddin was born in Kayseri on 8 January 1345, into a family of qadis of Oghuz origin, and studied law, hadith and exegesis in Damascus and Cairo. Appointed qadi of Kayseri in 1364 by the Eretnid emir, whose daughter he married, he became vizier in 1378, then proclaimed himself sultan in Sivas in 1381. He fought the Ottomans, the Mamluks, the Karamanids and the Turkmen, and refused to submit to Tamerlane. Captured by the Aq Qoyunlu chief Qara Yülük Osman, he was executed in 1398 before Sivas. He also left a treatise on law in Arabic.

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