Pervâne

Pervane Mu'in al -Din Suleyman ( پروانه معين الدين سليمان, Mu'in al -Din Sulayman; Turkish: Süleyman pervane Muineddin ) was one of the most important politicians of the Rum Seldschukenreichs in the 13th century.

Name

Pervane was the title of a personal assistant of the Sultan. Mu'in al -Din Suleyman retained the title in a nickname even after his ascension. The meaning has nothing to do with the present meaning butterfly, but comes from the word Ferman.

Biography

Mu'in al -Din Suleyman was the son of Muhadhdhab al -Din, vizier of Kai Khosrau II. He was first Commander of Erzincan. In the course of Baijus campaign against the Rum - Seljuks in 1256 he was in Konya with the permission of the Office of the Mongols Pervane whose title henceforth part of their name was. But together with the Sultan Kılıç Arslan IV he retired soon back in the safe cities Kayseri and Tokat.

From here he ruled autocratically with the support of the Mongols, which it controls area. Of the Mongols he won permission to secure the conquered by the Empire of Trebizond Sinop as a personal possession. As Kılıç Arslan IV refused this, he was strangled in 1265 at a banquet. Mu'in al -Din Suleyman went out to the rulers of the still underage Kai Khosrau III .. He supported the Ilkhanate in their confrontations with the Mamelukes, but at the same time he tried using the Mamelukes strip the Mongol supremacy.

When the Mamlucke Baybars I. 1277 an expedition to Asia Minor took and defeated a Mongol army at Elbistan, the Pervane was (whose troops had not intervened in the battle) blamed for the defeat, and on August 2, 1277, after a trial by the Mongol Khan Abaqa killed. According to legend, his flesh was served the next Mongolian banquet.

His sons took over his possessions, especially Sinop and built the Beylik the Pervâneoğulları.

Many buildings have been preserved mainly in Sinop but also in Tokat, Kayseri Merzifon and from his reign.