Baba Ishak

Baba Ishak, also spelled Baba Ishaq, Babaî, or Bābā’ī, a charismatic preacher, led an uprising of the Turkmen of Anatolia against the Seljuq Sultanate of Rûm "c." 1239 until he was hanged in 1241. ["Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages, 1250-1520", p. 279]

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*Claude Cahen, “Bābā’ī,” "Encyclopaedia of Islam", edited by P. Bearman, et al. (Brill, 2007).
*Claude Cahen, "Pre-Ottoman Turkey: a general survey of the material and spiritual culture and history", trans. J. Jones-Williams (New York: Taplinger, 1968), 136-7.
*Speros Vryonis, "The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization from the Eleventh through the Fifteenth Century" (University of California Press, 1971), 134.