Badi al-Zaman Mirza

Badi al-Zaman was the eldest son of the Khorasan Sultan Hussein Baykar . His father gave him control of the city of Dzhurjan . In 1496, Badi was appointed ruler of Balkh ^[1] , but wished to leave Jurjan to his son, Mohammad Momen Mirza, but Hussein Baykara gave the city to his beloved son, Mozaffar Hussein Mirza. The outraged Badi rebelled against his father and joined forces with several influential emirs. The first battle between father and son took place in May 1497. The rebel army was defeated, Badi al-Zaman escaped. The next day, his son, Mohammad Momen, was captured after the battle with his uncle, Mozaffar Hussein, and sent to prison in Herat. As a result of the intrigues of the mother of Mozaffar, Mohammad was executed. After a second defeat from the Sultan army in June 1498, Badi al-Zaman agreed to conclude peace with his father. He retained Balkh ^[2] .

After the death of Hussein Baykar in 1506, Badi al-Zaman and his brother Mozaffar Hussein ruled in Herat as regent co-regents. Already in 1507, Herat was captured by the Uzbek khan Muhammad Sheybani . Badi fled, leaving his harem and treasury, most of his relatives were executed ^[1] . For a long time he wandered, lived in India for a year, and in 1513 he returned to Khorasan, which was already ruled by the Safavids . Shah Ismail I allowed Badi al-Zaman to settle in Azerbaijan and appointed him a salary of 1,000 dinars per day. When in 1514 the Ottoman sultan Selim captured Tabriz , he treated Badi respectfully and took him with him to Istanbul . There, soon Badi al-Zaman died of the plague. Like his father, Badi was a poet ^[2] .