Sahib Ata

The Sahib Ataids were a short-lived beylik of central Anatolia founded by the sons of Fakhr al-Din Ali, better known as Sâhib Ata, grand vizier of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm. Released from Ilkhanid imprisonment in 1275, Sâhib Ata secured Afyonkarahisar as an estate for his sons Taceddin Hüseyin and Nusreddin Hasan, who ruled it jointly.

Both were killed in 1277 at the Battle of Değirmençay fighting the Karamanid Mehmed Bey and his puppet claimant Jimri. The line passed to Hasan's grandson Şemseddin Mehmed and then to Nusreddin Ahmed, who took refuge with the Germiyanids when the Ilkhanid governor Timurtaş moved against the frontier beys.

After Timurtaş fled to Egypt in 1327 Ahmed returned to rule as a Germiyanid vassal. On his death around 1341 the beylik was absorbed by the Germiyanids. Sâhib Ata left mosques and madrasas from Konya to Sivas.