Isa of Aydin
Isa Bey (Turkish: İsa Bey) ruled the Aydınid principality from 1360 to 1390, succeeding his brother Hızır Bey. He was the fifth and youngest son of Mubariz al-Din Muhammad Bey (r. 1308–1334). During his reign, the town of Ayasuluk was relatively prosperous economy wise, and held good mercantile relations with the towns of Venice, Ragusa (modern-day Dubrovnik), and Genoa.[1]
Unlike the Beylik of Isfendiyar, the Aydinids did not support the forces of the Ottoman ruler Murat I in the 1389 Battle of Kosovo. His reign eventually ended a year after the battle in 1390 when the new Ottoman ruler Bayezid I annexed the principality together with other Turkmen principalities that were located in western Anatolia. Bayezid shortly after married Isa Bey's daughter Hafsa Khatun.[1]
Isa Bey held interests in scholarship and learning, and was able to read Arabic, Persian and Old Anatolian Turkish. His undated tomb is located in Birgi. The precise date of his death remains unknown.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Jackson 2022, p. 69.
Sources
[edit]- Jackson, Cailah (2022). "The Arts of the Book in the Aydınid Realm: Exploring a Neglected Medical Manuscript from Late Fourteenth-Century Western Rum". Muqarnas Online. 39 (1): 61–77. doi:10.1163/22118993-00391P05.
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