Köse Mihal

Köse Mihal (* 13th century, † 1340; German: Michael the beardless, and Michael the goatee ) accompanied Osman Ghazi in his ascent to the independent Emir and founder of the Ottoman Empire. He is considered the first major, converted to Islam from Christianity in Byzantine renegade Ottoman services.

Source location

The costs associated with Köse Mihal events whose historical truth is no longer fathom, and which are largely assessed as mythical and legendary, were written in the 15th century. The oldest Ottoman source, Menâkıb -ı Ali Osman i Yahşi of Fakih from the time of Sultan Bayezid I. is indeed lost, but was obviously one of the foundations for later chroniclers as Aschikpaschazade and Mehmed Neşrî, which also reported Köse Mihal. In their fundamental works, the German orientalist and historian Joseph von Hammer- Purgstall Nicolae Iorga and also assisted in terms of Köse Mihal on Idris -i Bitlisi, Mehmet Hoxha Sa'eddin and Leunclavius ​​references to these and other, partially re- examined sources one finds Klaus Kreiser: The Ottoman State from 1300 to 1922. The statements of all the ancient sources about Köse Mihal are essentially limited to its relationship to Osman Ghazi and Orhan Ghazi. About him as a person is only reported in this narrow viewpoint.

Life

According to those historians Köse Mihal was Byzantine governor of Chirmenkia ( Harmankaya, today Harmanköy ) and Greek origin. Even before his conversion to Islam, he was the opponent for "faithful [n ] friend " Osman Ghazi. He participated as an ally with his servants at its military campaigns and also supported him as ortkundiger leaders, consultants and diplomatic mediation. The reports of the time and occasion of his change of faith are contradictory. On the one hand he was forced or Osman Ghazi 's sake, on the other hand become because of a meaningful dream of Muslim belief. The timeline for the years are 1304 and 1313. Köse Mihal As a Muslim, was also called " Abd Allah" ( Abdullah ).

At the conquest of Bursa in 1326 Köse Mihal played mainly as a consultant and diplomatic envoy Orhan Ghazi, the son and successor of Osman Ghazi, a significant role. Orhan Ghazi should be it, who gave him the hereditary command of the Akıncı. Köse Mihal was the first of the former Christian renegades who took over supporting functions in all areas of the Ottoman state. Köse Mihals descendants, known as Mihaloğlu were, especially in the 15th and 16th centuries, politically and militarily successful Ottoman dignitaries and military leaders in Rumelia. But they did not reached the highest offices of state, which is expected to fall to a dream Sultan Murad II.

After the capture of Bursa Köse Mihal is no longer mentioned in the sources. Kreutel notes Köse Mihal had died around 1340.

That Köse Mihal was buried in Adrian Opel in a Türbe at a donated his own mosque, Babinger cited in EJ Brill 's first encyclopaedia of Islam. Thus Köse Mihal had at least until after the conquest of Adrianople by Murad I in 1361 lived and thus reached a very advanced age. But Babinger made ​​a mistake. He mistook Köse Mihal with Ghazi Mihal Bey, a grandson Köse Mihals whose mosque complex with Imaret (destroyed) and Hamam ( Ruins) in Adrian Opel under Sultan Murad II was completed in 1422. On the adjoining cemetery is the Türbe the founder Ghazi Mihal Bey.

Films

• Kuruluş / Osmancık ( The founding / Osmancık ), Turkey in 1987, a TRT- production, screenwriting: Tarık Buğra with Ahmet Köse Mihal Mekin as