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The former Mamluk viceroy and therefore vehement opponent of Selīm I. (r. 1512-1520) Jānbirdī al-Ghazālī later became the sultan’s loyal governor of Damascus. When Selīm I. died in 1520, Jānbirdī al-Ghazālī refused to obey Selīm’s successor. Al- Ghazālī serves as an example of the challenge to sovereignty in the period of transition from Mamluk to Ottoman rule in Bilād al-Shām.
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This page is a summary of: Ottoman Servant, Mamluk Rebel? Narrative Strategies in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Historiography – the Example of Jānbirdī al-Ghazālī’s Downfall, November 2016, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co, KG,
DOI: 10.14220/9783737006378.327.
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