Celali rebellions

Celali rebellion

The Celali revolt. Şükri-i Bidlisi, Selīmnāme-i Şükrī, probably Maraş-Istanbul, Topkapı Palace Museum Library, Ms. H. 1597-98, fol. 264a.
DateEarly 16th century
1595–1610
1647–1648
Location
Result Rebellion suppressed
Belligerents
Celali rebels
Commanders and leaders
Selim I
Suleiman the Magnificent
Mehmed III
Ahmed I
Kuyucu Murad Pasha
Ibşir Mustafa Pasha
Tiryaki Hasan Pasha
Bozoklu Şeyh Celâl
Baba Zünnûn İsyanı
Kalender Çelebi İsyanı
Katırcıoğlu Mehmet Pasa
Karayazıcı
Deli Hasan
Parmaksız
Ali Janbulad
Kalenderoğlu
Tavil Ahmed
Abaza Mehmed Pasha
Varvar Ali Pasa
Strength
20,000 Sekbans, 30,000 ex-Sipahis rebels under Karayazici
50,000 cavalry (1602)
37,000 (1648)

The Celali rebellions (Turkish: Celalî ayaklanmaları) were a series of rebellions in Anatolia of irregular troops led by bandit chiefs and provincial officials known as celalî, celâli, or jelālī, against the Ottoman Empire in the late 16th and early to mid-17th centuries.