2016. Vol. 4, no. 4. Mirgaleev I.M., Gibadullin I.R.

2016. Vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 894-898

DOI: 10.22378/2313-6197.2016-4-4.894-898

 

LETTER TO AHMAD KHAN*

I.M. Mirgaleev1, I.R. Gibadullin2
1,2 Sh.Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences
Kazan 420014, Russian Federation
1E-mail: dilnur1976@mail.ru
2E-mail: ismagil4@yahoo.com

We bring to attention of specialists an undated letter of Ottoman ruler Mehmed II Fatih to the Great Horde khan Ahmad from the collection of famous collector of Ottoman charters Feridun-bey [1, S. 289].
The addressee is the famous ruler of the Great Horde, khan Ahmad. Daulat Khan mentioned in the letter is Nur-Davlet. He was connected with khan Ahmad, and, as indicated by the letter, he had also set in close contact with the Ottomans whose ruler openly declares in a letter that “our sight of benevolence and patronage is directed toward him”. Thereby the Sultan made it clear to the “principal” Tatar khan Akhmad that Nur-Davlet was under the patronage of the Ottoman Empire. Considering the period of activity of Nur-Davlet in Crimea, presumably the letter was written in 1477.
Famous researcher of the Crimean Khanate V.D. Smirnov had already examined the letter and the question of why Ahmad Khan was named the Crimean khan in the title of the letter [2, p. 221–222].

Keywords: letter, Ahmad Khan, Ottoman Empire, Great Horde, Crimea.

For citation: Mirgaleev I.M., Gibadullin I.R. Letter to Ahmad Khan. Golden Horde Review. 2016. Vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 894–898. DOI: 10.22378/2313-6197.2016-4-4.894-898

* Translation of letter from Ottoman and Persian by I.R. Gibadullin.

Thanks

Special thanks to Vladislav Gulevich for drawing our attention to this document.

REFERENCES

  1. Mecmua-yı münşeat-ı Feridun Bey, v.1. Feridun Bey, d. 1583. (In Ottoman)
  2. Smirnov V.D. Krymskoe hanstvo pod verkhovenstvom Otomanskoy Porty [Crimean Khanate under the rule of the Ottoman Porte]. Vol. 2. Moscow, Izdatel’skij dom «Rubezhi XXI», 2005. 314 p. (In Russian)

About the authors (translators): Il’nur M. Mirgaleev – Cand. Sci. (History), Head of the Usmanov Center for Research on the Golden Horde and Tatar Khanates, Sh.Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences (5 entrance, Kremlin, Kazan 420014, Russian Federation). E-mail: dilnur1976@mail.ru

Ismagil R. Gibadullin – Cand. Sci. (History), Senior Research Fellow, Usmanov Center for Research on the Golden Horde and Tatar Khanates, Sh.Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences (5 entrance, Kremlin, Kazan 420014, Russian Federation). E-mail: ismagil4@yahoo.com

Received September 19, 2016
Accepted for publication November 30, 2016
Published online December 20, 2016