Rulers of Ak Koyunlu

List of Rulers of Ak Koyunlu (The Horde of the White Sheep)

Territory now part of present-day Iraq, Iran and eastern Turkey. Capital at Tabriz after 1471/2.

Uthman ibn Fakhr al-Din Qutlu was ruler of Amida before 1402. In 1402 he moved to Diyarbakir.

The rulers of Amida were:

Kutlu Beg was the father of Uthman

Rule	Incumbent	Notes
1378/9 to 1435/6	Baha’ al-Din Qara Yülük ‘Uthman ibn Fakhr al-Din Qutlu
1435/6 to 1444/5	Nur al-Din Hamza ibn Qara Yülük	in dispute with his brother ‘Ali (from Mardin) to 1438
1435/6 to 1438	Nur al-Din ‘Ali ibn Qara Yülük	in dispute with his brother Hamza
1444/5 to 1453/4	M‘uizz al-Din Jihangir ibn ‘Ali ibn Qara Yülük	emir of Mardin 1453-1469. Then his son Kasim Ibn Djihangir 1469-1503
1453/4 to 1478/9	Uzun Hasan ibn ‘Ali	Conquered Kara Koyunlu 1468/9
1478/9 to 1479/80	Khalil ibn Uzun Hasan
1479/80 to 1490/1	Y‘aqub ibn Uzun Hasan
1490/1 to 1491/2	Baisonqur ibn Y‘aqub
1491/2 to 1496/7	Rustam ibn Maqsud
1496/7 to 1497/8	Ahmad Gövde ibn Muhammad
1497/8 to 1499/1500	Murad ibn Ya‘qub	1st Term
1499/1500 to 1500/01	Alwand ibn Yusuf
1499/1500 to 1500/01	Muhammad Mirza ibn Yusuf	In Jibal and Fars
1500/01 to 1501/2	Muhammad Mirza ibn Yusuf	At Alwand, Isfahan and Kirman
1501/2 to 1508	Murad ibn Ya‘qub	2nd Term; desposed by Safavid Shah Ismail I
1508	Safavid conquest