Mirza Yusuf (; ) died 22October 1469, ) was the last sultan of the

Qara Qoyunlu The Qara Qoyunlu or Kara Koyunlu (, ; ), also known as the Black Sheep Turkomans, were a culturally Persianate, Muslim Turkoman "Kara Koyunlu, also spelled Qara Qoyunlu, Turkish Karakoyunlular, English Black Sheep, Turkmen tribal federation tha ...

, also known as the Black Sheep Turkomans, to have significant authority.

During reign of Jahan Shah

Mirza Yusuf was a son of

Jahan Shah Muzaffar al-Din Jahan Shah ibn Yusuf (; ; 1397 in Khoy or 1405 in Mardin – 30 October or 11 November 1467 near Bingöl) or Abu al-Muzaffar Jahan Shah was the leader of the Qara Qoyunlu Oghuz Turkic tribal confederacy in Azerbaijan (Iran), Azer ...

. He was appointed as governor of Fars after the revolt of his elder brother, Pir Budaq, in 1464. However, he was captured on 11 November 1467 at the Battle of Chapakchur by

Uzun Hasan Uzun Hasan or Uzun Hassan (; February or March 1425 – January 6, 1478) was a ruler of the Turkoman (ethnonym), Turkoman Aq Qoyunlu state and is generally considered to be its strongest ruler. Hasan ruled between 1452 and 1478 and presided ove ...

and blinded.

Reign

He was declared sultan by Pir Ali Beg Baharlu, Jahan Shah's ''

amir-al-umara The office of (), variously rendered in English as emir of emirs, prince of princes, chief emir, and commander of commanders, was a senior military position in the 10th-century Abbasid Caliphate, whose holders in the decade after 936 came to super ...

'' and minister, in 1468.Muḥaddis̲, Mīr Hāshim (1982). Tārīkh-i Qizilbāshān istory of Qizilbashes(in Persian). Tehrān : Bihnām. p. 18. He was soon joined by Sultan Ali (the son of Hasan Ali) and a rival prince of the

Aq Qoyunlu The Aq Qoyunlu or the White Sheep Turkomans (, ; ) was a culturally Persianate society, Persianate,Kaushik Roy, ''Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400–1750'', (Bloomsbury, 2014), 38; "Post-Mongol Persia and Iraq were ruled by two trib ...

, Mirza Mahmud Beg (the son of Osman Beg). They had some military successes in

Luristan Lorestan province () is one of the Provinces of Iran, 31 provinces of Iran. Its capital is the city of Khorramabad. Lorestan is in the Western Iran, western part of the country in the Zagros Mountains and covers an area of 28,392 km2. In ...

. However, Mirza Yusuf was soon defeated by

and had to retreat to Shiraz, where he was killed by Uzun Hasan's son

Ughurlu Muhammad Ughurlu Muhammad Beg or Ughurlu Mehmed (; ; ; d. 1477) was a prince of the Aq Qoyunlu, son of Uzun Hasan and his Kurdish spouse. Early life He was born in November 1442 to Uzun Hasan and a daughter of Dawlatshah Bulduqani-Mardasi, 8 months lat ...

on 22October 1469. Pir Ali Beg Baharlu fled to the court of the Timurid ruler Hasan Bayqara.

Family

Mirza Yusuf's daughter Khadija Begum married Alvand Mirza's son Pir Quli Beg. Their grandson Quli Qutb Mulk later founded the

Qutb Shahi dynasty The Sultanate of Golconda (; ) was an early modern kingdom in southern India, ruled by the Persianate, Shia Islamic Qutb Shahi dynasty of Turkoman origin. After the decline of the Bahmani Sultanate, the Sultanate of Golconda was established ...

of India.Ramanand Vidya Bhawan, ''The Indian Historical Quarterly, Volume 16, Issues 1-4'', 1985, p.711

References

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