14 Facts About Qara Yusuf

Qara Yusuf was the son of Qara Mahammad Toremish, a brother-in-law to Ahmad Jalayir.

Qara Yusuf made short-term alliance with Qara Osman against Pir Hasan and crushed his forces.

However, once they had retaken control of Baghdad they quarreled, and Qara Yusuf expelled Sultan Ahmed Jalayir from the city.

Together in prison, the two leaders renewed their friendship, making an agreement that Sultan Ahmed Jalayir should keep Baghdad while Qara Yusuf would have Azerbaijan.

Qara Yusuf, having returned from exile in Mamluk Egypt and went back to Anatolia.

Qara Yusuf was captured and forced to abdicate in favor of Pirbudag and to appoint Shah Muhammad to be governor of Baghdad.

Qara Yusuf was executed the next day passing Iraq into the hands of Qara Yusuf after Bistam Beg urged him.

Qara Yusuf declared his son as "sultan" and crowned him in 1411, however he was still in charge as regent.

Qara Yusuf later revoked the governorship of Soltaniyeh from Bistam Beg and bestowed it on Jahan shah in 1415.

Qara Yusuf made raids into Aintab which was then under Mamluk rule in response to them granting asylum to Qara Osman.

Qara Yusuf tried to forge an anti-Timurid alliance with Mehmed I in 1420 unsuccessfully.

Shah Muhammad and Qara Yusuf Iskander retreated to Ganja and Barda.

Qara Yusuf was married to a daughter of Manuel III of Trebizond.

Qara Yusuf was married to Timur's great-granddaughter, a daughter of Abu Bakr, son of Miran Shah.