The Political Situation in The Land of Dasin in the 16th Century

Abstract

During the Ottoman area, the Kurdish motherland was divided into some large emirates and leaders, the differences between those emirates were according to its kind and its level of independence from the Ottoman state, Shrakhan Bitlisi wrote an account of those emirates for the first time, however, for some invisible reasons he neglected the history of some of them, he did not depict the historical reasons of majority emirates, hence to a great extent the Kurdish emirates history is being unclear and disappeared. This research attempts to shed light on one of the disappeared emirates, it is the (Dasni emirate), it concentrates on the political development and transformation of the Dasni region during the sixteenth century. As a result of having a few accounts and references, its author has used documents and Ottoman authentic records, especially those pieces of evidence related to the recording of important and justification offices (Dafter Muhema) or (Daftar Tawjihat), those records have showed the order and decisions, which ottoman sultan had sent to the Ottoman governors and Kurdish emirs of four sides of Dasni’s region, there are some great details on many aspects of Dasni history in.