emirate · Anatolia and the Levant

Sahib Ataids

1275 CE – 1341 CE (approx.) · capital Afyonkarahisar

A beylik around Afyonkarahisar founded by the family of Sahib Ata, the great Seljuk vizier and builder of Konya.

Origins

Sahib Ata Fakhr al-Din Ali was vizier of the Sultanate of Rum for decades under Mongol overlordship. In the 1270s his sons were granted Karahisar, Kutahya and nearby lands, which the family held as a semi-independent domain after Seljuk authority collapsed.

Rule and society

Sahib Ata was one of the greatest patrons of Seljuk architecture, building the Ince Minareli madrasa and his own mosque complex in Konya and works in Kayseri and Sivas. His descendants ruled a small beylik in western Anatolia, built mosques and schools in Afyonkarahisar and kept close ties with the Mevlevi order.

Decline and legacy

The beylik was squeezed by the Germiyanids, who absorbed its lands by around 1341.

Few sources survive for this state; details are uncertain.

Lineage

Sahib AtaidsGermiyanids 1300 CE – 1429 CE

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APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). Sahib Ataids. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/sahib-ataids
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“Sahib Ataids.” The Epoch Institute States Register, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/sahib-ataids. Accessed .
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