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were denigrated and exiled from the country of Rūm (memleket-i Rūm) to Rum Eli. 1044
Neither the province that sufis were deported from, nor the one they were exiled to is
specified by Aşıkpaşazāde. Thus it is reasonable to think that the mass deportation from
Teke and Hamid-ili to Moton and Coron was only an example among many others. But
it must have been the greatest since historians needed to put special emphasis on this
case. Aşıkpaşazāde recites the deportation just before his narration of Ismail’s march on
Tabriz. 1045 One can deduce, thus, from his account that Ismail captured Tabriz after the
exile of many sufis from several parts of memleket-i Rūm. As delineated above, the
deportation from Teke occurred after the appointment of Korkud in 1502, when Ismail
had already entered Tabriz. 1046 Thus what Aşıkpaşazāde mentions must be not
necessarily the well-known exile of Tekean sufis but some others that took place earlier
than 1502. 1047
Haniwaldanus Anonym confirms such an assumption. It states, Bayezid II
dispatched orders to his governors in eastern borders to arrest and execute those who
wanted to join Ismail’s forces. But such measures could not prevent the qizilbash flow to
Iran. He, then, inspected sufis wearing red-caps (kızıl tāc) all over Anatolia. Upon his
order the adherents of Ismail were executed. But those who were sympathizers but still
hesitant were deported, with their children and spouses, to Morea. For this purpose many
messengers were sent to Anatolia; so many people were executed and exiled that many
1044
“Memleket-i Rūm’da olan sofılarun hülefāsını ve Ardabil’e varan sofuları Sultan Bayezid tahkīr edüb
Rum Eli’ne sürdi.” APZ, p. 251.
1045
APZ, p. 251.
1046
Ismail captured Tebriz in the summer of 1501. See Allouche, p. 82.
1047
For a similar approach consider Veinstein, “Les premières measures”, pp. 230-32. Veinstein comes
out with the same conclusion on the basis of a totally different source. He analyzes a decree of Bayezid
issued in June, 1501, which is published in AD. The decree is addressed to the qadi of Ankara and orders
to arrest certain Fethullah, who was deported to Moton but returned to Ankara without permission. The
qadi was expected to capture and imprison him.
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