Sultan Mehmet I

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Sultan

Mehmet Khan I

Father of the Sharifistanis
TitleSultan of Sharifistan
Personal
Died
Madinat Al-Islam Palace
Cause of deathheart attack
Resting placeKhan plot, Madinat Al-Islam Islamic Cemetery
ReligionIslam
NationalityOttoman (1915-1922), Sharifistani (1922-1975)
Home townMadinat Al-Islam, Sharifistan
SpouseMeryem Fatimah Khan, Khadijah Aisha Khan and Afet Aisha Khan
ChildrenSultan Mehmet Khan II, Khadija Aisha Khan II, Fatimah Meryem Khan and Meryem Afet Khan
ParentsPasha Ahmed Suleiman Khan and Kadin Aisha Fatimah Khan
DenominationSunni Sufi Islam
SchoolMaturidiyya
Alma materMevlevi Order
Known forfirst Sultan of Sharifistan
Posthumous nameAta-Sharifistanlılar (Father of the Sharifistanis)
ProfessionCavalry officer (1915-1920), Sultan (1922-1975)
Military service
RankKolağası
OrderMevlevi Order
PhilosophyNatural law theory and Platonism
Senior posting
SuccessorSultan Mehmet Khan II (his son)
Reason for exithis death
Initiatedunknown
ProfessionCavalry officer (1915-1920), Sultan (1922-1975)
PostSultan of Sharifistan

Sultan Mehmet I was the first Sultan of Sharifistan and before that an Ottoman nobleman, cavalry officer in the Hamidiye and son of the Pasha of Sipahistan.

Early life

Born into the Ottoman nobility in 1895, the Sultan, Mehmet Khan, was educated with the expectation that he would hold an office of leadership. He was taught philosophy, reading, writing, Arabic, mathematics and Islamic studies.

Ottoman military service

Mehmet Khan joined the Hamidye cavalry as an officer at the age of 20 in 1915. He served as a cavalry officer in World War One and was praised for his bravery leaving the Ottoman Army in 1920 as a Kolağası (Major).

Turkish War of Independence and founding of Sharifistan

After the Ottoman Empire lost World War One and the Allied forces invaded Turkey Sultan Mehmet I joined the Turkish National Movement and lead 150 men in opposition to the occupying powers. Once the Ottoman Empire was abolished he joined a group of other nobles in what was then Sipahistan to petition for it's independence. It became independent and became Sharifistan.

Veneration

In Sharifistan he is widely venerated as a saint and is along with Sultan Suleiman Khan considered the patron saint (Wali) of Sharifistan.

Sultan

Mehmet Khan

Ata-Sharifistanlılar (Father of the Sharifistanis)
Sultan of Sharifistan, Ata-Sharifistanlılar
Venerated inSufi Islam in Sharifistan and the Sharifistani diaspora
Major shrineMehmet Khan's Mausoleum, Madinat Al-Islam Old Town, Madinat Al-Islam, Sharifistan
PatronageSharifistan, horsemen, cavalrymen, military officers, armoured corps personnel (by association with cavalrymen), partisans, entrepreneurs, philosophers and Madinat Al-Islam