# Jimri

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{{Short description|Pretender to the Sultanate of Rum}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| name         = Ala al-Din Siyavush
| title        = Sultan
| succession   = [Sultan of Rum](/source/Seljuk_Empire) (pretender)
| reign        = 1277
| predecessor  = [Kaykhusraw III](/source/Kaykhusraw_III)
| regent       = [Mehmed](/source/Shams_al-Din_Mehmed)
| reg-type     = Vizier
| successor    = [Kaykhusraw III](/source/Kaykhusraw_III)
| death_date   = 1277
| spouse       = a Daughter of [Kilij Arslan IV](/source/Kilij_Arslan_IV)
| full name    = Ala al-Din Siyavush Jimri
}}
'''Jimri''' ({{langx|tr|Cimri}}) was a pretender to the [Sultanate of Rum](/source/Sultanate_of_Rum), promoted by the Turkmen in the chaos after [Baibars](/source/Baibars)’ invasion of [Mongol](/source/Mongol_Empire)-dominated [Anatolia](/source/Anatolia) in 1277. He was executed the following year. The pretender’s formal name, ‘Ala al-Din Siyavush, appears on his few coins, but the sources almost invariably refer to him by the derogatory nickname Jimri, or “the Miser”.

Following Baibars' withdrawal from Anatolia, the [Mamluks’](/source/Mamluk) Turkmen allies, the [Karamanids](/source/Karamanids), were encouraged by their successes against the Mongols and sought their own successor to the Seljuq throne. They felt that the serving sultan, [Kaykhusraw III](/source/Kaykhusraw_III), was too much a tool of the Mongol overlords, since his youth and virtual captivity by the Mongols’ agents in Anatolia made him an inappropriate focus for local and specifically Muslim aspirations. The logical candidate was the deposed sultan [Kaykaus II](/source/Kaykaus_II) who, despite his exile in the [Crimea](/source/Crimea), remained popular among the Turkmen. With [Kaykaus II](/source/Kaykaus_II) absent, the Karamanids introduced a proxy ruler, commonly known as Jimri, whom they declared the son of the exiled sultan. With the support of the [Eshrefid](/source/Eshrefids) and [Menteshid](/source/Beylik_of_Mente%C5%9Fe), the Karamanids then seized Konya and established Jimri as Sultan of [Rum](/source/R%C3%BBm). He was supplied with the superficial trappings of power, including a parasol pillaged from the tomb of [Kayqubad the Great](/source/Kayqubad_I), who had ruled the then prosperous Sultanate of Rum half a century before. Jimri married a daughter of [Kilij Arslan IV](/source/Kilij_Arslan_IV) and named the Karamanid chief [Mehmed Bey](/source/Karamano%C4%9Flu_Mehmet_Bey) [vizier](/source/vizier) at the prompting of his supporters.

The [Mongol](/source/Ilkhanate) khan [Abagha](/source/Abaqa_Khan) arrived in Anatolia too late to confront the Mamluks; he found instead widespread rebellion among the Turkmen, with Jimri as their nominal leader. The khan established himself in [Kayseri](/source/Kayseri), a city recently abandoned by Baibars, where he took revenge on the neighboring Turkmen. Mongol control of Konya was restored, the Karamanids eventually defeated, and [Mehmed Bey](/source/Karamano%C4%9Flu_Mehmet_Bey) and his brothers killed. With his mentor dead and Turkmen power in central Anatolia at a low point, Jimri escaped to [Afyon](/source/Afyon)karahisar where he organized further resistance. In time, the Mongol vizier of [Rum](/source/R%C3%BBm) and guardian of the young [Kaykhusraw III](/source/Kaykhusraw_III), [Fakhr al-Din Ali](/source/S%C3%A2hib_Ata), to whom the khan had given the region in [fief](/source/fief), reestablished his authority. Jimri was captured and burned at the stake; his corpse was then flayed, stuffed with straw, and set upon a donkey which toured the cities of Anatolia as a warning to the Turkmen.

The Jimri affair, like the [Baba Ishak](/source/Baba_Ishak) uprising of thirty years before, is significant in that it demonstrates a growing Turkmen ascendancy in Anatolia. (see [Babai Revolt](/source/Babai_Revolt)) Jimri, though a puppet of the [Karamanids](/source/Karamanids), succeeded in uniting much of Turkish Anatolia against a foreign occupier. The chancellery established in his name was the first in Anatolia to use [Turkish](/source/Turkish_language) as its official language.

==See also==
*[Doğrugöz](/source/Do%C4%9Frug%C3%B6z)

==Sources==
*Claude Cahen, ''Pre-Ottoman Turkey: a general survey of the material and spiritual culture and history'', trans. J. Jones-Williams (New York: Taplinger, 1968), 289–92.
*Stephen Album, ''Checklist of Islamic Coins'', 2nd edition (1998), p. 62.

Category:People from the Sultanate of Rum

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