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38-495: As one of the northern gates, it is opposite to Abwab Mihrab Mariam and between Madrasah al-Karimiyah and Turbah al-Awhadiyah. It is located on the Northern Wall near the eastern corner. According to the study of Al-Ratrout (2002), the gate's name has changed throughout history. It is believed that this change was due to restorations over the years and Le Strange named this door as the ancient Bab al-Asbat . Today, Bab al-Hitta

76-652: A great reputation among his military men for his confrontations with the Safavids, slave raids and a campaign in the Caucasus against Georgia. In 1505 Selim routed a 3,000-strong Safavid army led by Shah Ismail's brother, massacring many and seizing their arms and munitions. In 1507, after Shah Ismail marched through Ottoman lands to wage war against the Dulkadirids , Selim attacked Erzincan and defeated another Safavid army sent against him. The following year he invaded

114-578: A letter to his rival, while equating himself with Alexander , Selim compares his rival Ismail as "Darius of our days". Paolo Giovio , in a work written for Charles V , says that Selim holds Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar in the highest esteem above all the generals of old. While marching into Persia in 1514, Selim's troops suffered from the scorched-earth tactics of Shah Ismail. The sultan hoped to lure Ismail into an open battle before his troops starved to death, and began writing insulting letters to

152-568: A list of all Shiites ages 7 to 70 in a number of central Anatolian cities including Tokat, Sivas and Amasya. As Selim marched through these cities, his forces rounded up and executed all the Shiites they could find. Most of them were beheaded. The massacre was the largest in Ottoman history, until the end of the 19th century. In 1514 Selim I attacked Ismail's kingdom to stop the spread of Shiism into Ottoman dominions. Selim and Ismā'il had exchanged

190-536: A period of plague in the empire, and have added that several sources imply that Selim himself suffered from the disease. On 22 September 1520 Selim I's eight-year reign came to an end. Selim died and was brought to Istanbul, so he could be buried in Yavuz Selim Mosque which sultan Suleiman I commissioned in loving memory of his father. Selim I had conquered and unified the Islamic holy lands. Protecting

228-605: A series of belligerent letters prior to the attack. On his march to face Ismā'il, Selim had 50,000 Alevis massacred, seeing them as enemies of the Ottoman Empire. Selim I defeated Ismā'il at the Battle of Chaldiran in 1514. Ismā'il's army was more mobile and his soldiers better prepared, but the Ottomans prevailed due in large part to their efficient modern army, possession of artillery, black powder and muskets . Ismā'il

266-849: A thickness of 3 meters (9.8 feet). All together, the Old City walls contain 43 surveillance towers and 11 gates, seven of which are presently open. In 1967, it was through this gate that Israeli paratroopers broke into the Old City of Jerusalem, occupied, along with the rest of East Jerusalem and the whole West Bank , from Jordan at the time. Gates 1. Jaffa 2. Zion 3. Dung 4. Golden 5. Lions 6. Herod 7. Damascus 8. New ( Double, Single, Tanners ' ) Al-Mawazin Selim I Georgian campaign (1508) Ottoman Civil War (1509–1513) Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–1517) Selim I ( Ottoman Turkish : سليم اول ; Turkish : I. Selim ; 10 October 1470 – 22 September 1520), known as Selim

304-517: Is one of the three gates that are open for morning, evening, and night prayers. In the late 15th century, Mujir ad-Din described it as one of the largest quarters in Jerusalem. A census taken by the Ottoman authority registered only Muslims in the quarter. At the beginning of the 20th century, the quarter had boundaries defined as follows: In the 19th century, Jews were an increasing percentage of Jerusalem's population, and began to spread out of

342-540: The Arabian Peninsula , and ultimately Egypt itself. This permitted Selim to extend Ottoman power to the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina , hitherto under Egyptian rule. Rather than style himself the Ḥākimü'l-Ḥaremeyn , or The Ruler of The Two Holy Cities , he accepted the more pious title Ḫādimü'l-Ḥaremeyn , or The Servant of The Two Holy Cities . The last Abbasid caliph , al-Mutawakkil III ,

380-772: The Jewish Quarter into the Muslim Quarter. Jewish families settled in Bab al-Hutta by 1837. The neighborhood is considered one of the poorest areas in the Old City. It is home to the Dom Romani community of the Old City, known in Arabic as al-Nawar , led by mukhtar Abed-Alhakim Mohammed Deeb Salim. “Significantly, the surviving gateway has the single opening of a semicircular arch with distinctive 45 degree chamfer and segmental inner arch observed at many gates of

418-610: The Ottoman Empire spanned about 3.4 million km (1.3 million sq mi), having grown by seventy percent during Selim's reign. Selim's conquest of the Middle Eastern heartlands of the Muslim world , and particularly his assumption of the role of guardian of the pilgrimage routes to Mecca and Medina , established the Ottoman Empire as the pre-eminent Muslim state. His conquests dramatically shifted

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456-574: The Caucasus, subdued western Georgia , brought the Imereti and Guria under Ottoman domination and seized a large number of slaves. In 1510 he defeated the Safavids again in the Campaign of Trabzon. By 1512 Şehzade Ahmed was the favorite candidate to succeed his father. Bayezid, who was reluctant to continue his rule over the empire, announced Ahmed as heir apparent to the throne. Angered by this announcement, Selim rebelled , and while he lost

494-638: The Grim or Selim the Resolute (Turkish: Yavuz Sultan Selim ), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520. Despite lasting only eight years, his reign is notable for the enormous expansion of the Empire, particularly his conquest between 1516 and 1517 of the entire Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt , which included all of the Levant , Hejaz , Tihamah and Egypt itself. On the eve of his death in 1520,

532-485: The Ottoman Empire itself, he imposed a strict embargo on Iranian silk in an attempt to collapse their economy. For a short amount of time, the silk resources were imported via the Mamluk territory of Aleppo, but by 1517, Selim I had conquered the Mamluk state and the trade fully came to a standstill. So strict was this embargo that, "merchants who had been incautious enough not to immediately leave Ottoman territory when war

570-549: The Ottoman Empire to reach its zenith under the reign of his son and successor, Suleiman the Magnificent . Selim was bilingual in Turkish and Persian, with the Ottoman literary critic Latifî (died 1582) noting that he was "very fond of speaking Persian". He was also a distinguished poet who wrote both Turkish and Persian verse under the nickname Mahlas Selimi ; collections of his Persian poetry are extant today. In

608-474: The Shah, accusing him of cowardice: They, who by perjuries seize scepters ought not to skulk from danger, but their breast ought, like the shield, to be held out to encounter peril; they ought, like the helm, to affront the foeman's blow. Ismail responded to Selim's third message, quoted above, by having an envoy deliver a letter accompanied by a box of opium. The Shah's letter insultingly implied that Selim's prose

646-707: The Tribes';), also St Stephen's Gate , is one of the seven open Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem . It leads into the Muslim Quarter of the Old City. The start of the traditional Christian observance of the last walk of Jesus from prison to crucifixion , the Via Dolorosa , begins at the Lions' Gate, called St Stephen's Gate by Christians. Carved into the wall above the gate are four lions, two on

684-529: The caliphal office from the Mamluk Abbasid dynasty to the Ottomans were a later invention. Selim was born in Amasya on 10 October 1470 as the son of Şehzade Bayezid (later Bayezid II ) during the reign of his grandfather Mehmed II . His mother was Ayşe Gülbahar Hatun , a Pontic Greek concubine, formerly confused with Ayşe Hatun , another consort of Bayezid and daughter of Alaüddevle Bozkurt Bey ,

722-1065: The door is unknown, however, it was renovated during the Ayyubids and Ottomans ’ reign. According to the recordings found, the gate was repaired two times. It was done during the time of the Ayyubids in Rajab 617 A.H. and later in 989 A.H. Some scholars believe that the phrase "Hitta" in verses 58 and 161 of Surah al-Baqarah and al-A’raf respectively refers to the Bab al-Hitta. Gates 1. Jaffa 2. Zion 3. Dung 4. Golden 5. Lions 6. Herod 7. Damascus 8. New ( Double, Single, Tanners ' ) Al-Mawazin 31°46′55″N 35°14′07″E  /  31.78194°N 35.23528°E  / 31.78194; 35.23528 Bab Al-Asbat Lions' Gate ( Hebrew : שער האריות , romanized :  Sha'ar ha-Arayot , lit.   'Lions' Gate', Arabic : باب الأسباط , romanized :  Bab al-Asbat , lit.   'Gate of

760-399: The eleventh ruler of the Dulkadirids . In 1479 at the age of nine, he was sent by his grandfather to Istanbul to be circumcised along with his brothers. In 1481, his grandfather Mehmed II died and his father became Sultan Bayezid II . Six years later in 1487, he was sent by his father to Trabzon to serve there as governor. During his reign as governor of Trabzon Selim had earned

798-603: The empire's geographical and cultural center of gravity away from the Balkans and toward the Middle East. By the eighteenth century, Selim's conquest of the Mamluk Sultanate had come to be romanticized as the moment when the Ottomans seized leadership over the rest of the Muslim world, and consequently Selim is popularly remembered as the first legitimate Ottoman Caliph , although stories of an official transfer of

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836-431: The enclave, especially Bab al-Hashmi. Evidence that there is a vertical joint in the masonry of the wall at 1.20 metres west of this gate as well as the historical description of the gate by Khusru (Khusru, 1983, p59) suggests that Bab al-Asbat was built with at least two openings. But it has been partially blocked at the end of the 13th century AD and left as a single opening (Burgoyne, 1992, p112)” The construction date of

874-577: The first battle against his father's forces, Selim ultimately dethroned his father. Selim commanded 30,000 men, whereas his father led 40,000. Selim only escaped with 3,000 men. This marked the first time that an Ottoman prince openly rebelled against his father with an army of his own. Selim ordered the exile of Bayezid to a distant " sanjak ", Dimetoka (in the north-east of present-day Greece). Bayezid died immediately thereafter. Selim put his brothers (Şehzade Ahmet and Şehzade Korkut ) and nephews to death upon his accession. His nephew Şehzade Murad , son of

912-653: The lands in Europe, he gave priority to the East, as he believed the real danger came from there. By most accounts, Selim had a fiery temper and had very high expectations of those below him. Several of his viziers were executed for various reasons. A famous anecdote relates how another vizier playfully asked the Sultan for some preliminary notice of his doom so that he might have time to put his affairs in order. The Sultan laughed and replied that indeed he had been thinking of having

950-511: The left and two on the right. Suleiman the Magnificent had the carvings made to celebrate the Ottoman defeat of the Mamluks in 1517. Legend has it that Suleiman's predecessor Selim I dreamed of lions that were going to eat him because of his plans to level the city. He was spared only after promising to protect the city by building a wall around it. This led to the lion becoming the heraldic symbol of Jerusalem. Historian Moshe Sharon notes

988-470: The legal heir to the throne Şehzade Ahmed, fled to the neighboring Safavid Empire after his expected support failed to materialize. This fratricidal policy was motivated by bouts of civil strife that had been sparked by the antagonism between Selim's father and his uncle, Cem Sultan , and between Selim himself and his brother Ahmet. After many centuries of calm, the Alevi population was active while Selim I

1026-531: The point of losing his mind and totally neglectful of the affairs of the state". Sultan Selim then conquered the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, defeating the Mamluk Egyptians first at the Battle of Marj Dabiq (24 August 1516), and then at the Battle of Ridanieh (22 January 1517). This led to the Ottoman annexation of the entire sultanate, from Syria and Palestine in Sham , to Hejaz and Tihamah in

1064-621: The portrayal of the Safavids in Ottoman chronicles as kuffar . After the Battle of Chaldiran, Selim I's minimal tolerance for Shah Ismail disintegrated, and he began a short era of closed borders with the Safavid Empire. Selim I wanted to use the Ottoman Empire's central location to completely cut the ties between Shah Ismail's Safavid Empire and the rest of the world. Even though the raw materials for important Ottoman silk production at that time came from Persia rather than developed within

1102-482: The similarity of the sculpted felines to similar pairs at Jisr Jindas and Qasr al-Basha in Gaza . All represent the same Mamluk sultan, Baibars . Sharon estimates that they all date to approximately 1273 C.E. The gate is part of the city's extant walls, built by Ottoman Sultan Suleiman in 1538. The walls stretch for approximately 4.5 kilometers (2.8 mi) and rise to a height of 5–15 meters (16–49 ft), with

1140-464: The vizier killed, but had no one fit to take his place, otherwise he would gladly oblige. A popular Ottoman curse was, "May you be a vizier of Selim's," as a reference to the number of viziers he had executed. Selim was one of the Empire's most successful and respected rulers, being energetic and hardworking. During his short eight years of ruling, he accomplished momentous success. Despite the length of his reign, many historians agree that Selim prepared

1178-586: The war to demonstrate his commitment to their thorny rivalry, Selim I halted trade with the Safavids —even at the expense of his empire's own silk industry and citizens. This embargo and closed borders policy was reversed quickly by his son Suleyman I after Selim I's death in 1520. Babur 's early relations with the Ottomans were poor because Selim I provided Babur's Uzbek rival Ubaydullah Khan with powerful matchlocks and cannons . In 1507, when ordered to accept Selim I as his rightful suzerain , Babur refused and gathered Qizilbash servicemen in order to counter

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1216-541: The whole of Iran and Azerbaijan , southern Dagestan (with its important city of Derbent ), Mesopotamia , Armenia , Khorasan , Eastern Anatolia , and had made the Georgian kingdoms of Kartli and Kakheti his vassals. He was a great threat to his Sunni Muslim neighbors to the west. In 1511 Ismail had supported a pro-Shia/Safavid uprising in Anatolia, the Şahkulu Rebellion . Early in his reign, Selim created

1254-572: Was a later invention. After conquering Damascus in 1516, Selim ordered the restoration of the tomb of Ibn Arabi (d. 1240), a famous Sufi master who was highly revered among Ottoman Sufis. A planned campaign westward was cut short when Selim was overwhelmed by sickness and subsequently died in the ninth year of his reign aged 49. Officially, it is said that Selim succumbed to a mistreated carbuncle . Some historians, however, suggest that he died of cancer or that his physician poisoned him. Other historians have noted that Selim's death coincided with

1292-494: Was declared had their goods taken away and were imprisoned," and to emphasize frontier security, sancaks along the border between the two empires were given exclusively to Sunnis and those who did not have any relationship with the Safavid-sympathizing Kızılbaş. Iranian merchants were barred from entering the borders of the Ottoman Empire under Selim I. Shah Ismail received revenue via customs duties, therefore after

1330-579: Was residing in Cairo as a Mamluk puppet at the time of the Ottoman conquest. He was subsequently sent into exile in Istanbul. In the eighteenth century, a story emerged claiming that he had officially transferred his title to the Caliphate to Selim at the time of the conquest. In fact, Selim did not make any claim to exercise the sacred authority of the office of caliph, and the notion of an official transfer

1368-646: Was the sultan, and they seem to have been backed by the Qizilbash of Iran. One of Selim's first challenges as sultan involved the growing tension between the Ottoman Empire and the Safavid Empire led by Shah Ismail , who had recently brought the Safavids to power and had switched the Persian state religion from Sunni Islam to adherence to the Twelver branch of Shia Islam . By 1510 Ismail had conquered

1406-529: Was the work of an unqualified writer on drugs. Selim was enraged by the Shah's denigration of his literary talent and ordered the Persian envoy to be torn to pieces. Outside of their military conflicts, Selim I and Shah Ismail clashed on the economic front as well. Opposed to Shah Ismail's adherence to the Shia sect of Islam (contrasting his Sunni beliefs), Selim I and his father before him "did not really accept his basic political and religious legitimacy," beginning

1444-471: Was wounded and almost captured in battle, and Selim I entered the Iranian capital of Tabriz in triumph on 5 September, but did not linger. The Battle of Chaldiran was of historical significance: the reluctance of Shah Ismail to accept the advantages of modern firearms and the importance of artillery proved decisive. After the battle, Selim, referring to Ismail, stated that his adversary was: "Always drunk to

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