Editing Bayezid I (section)

==Personality==
[[File:Bayezit proclamé sultan - miniature du XVe siècle.jpg|thumb|Bayezid is proclaimed sultan, 15th-century miniature]]According to the British orientalist, Lord Kinross, Bayezid was distinguished by haste, impulsivity, unpredictability and imprudence.<ref name="Kinross, B.P 1999. p. 70-71">Kinross, B.P; ''"Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire"''. 1999. pp. 70–71; {{ISBN|5-232-00732-7}}</ref> He cared little for state affairs, which he entrusted to his governors. As Kinross writes, between campaigns Bayezid was often engaged in pleasures: gluttony, drunkenness and debauchery. The court of the sultan was famous for its luxury and was comparable to the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] court during its heyday.<ref>Kinross, B.P; ''"Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire"''. 1999. p. 73 {{ISBN|5-232-00732-7}}</ref>

At the same time, the sultan was a talented commander.<ref name="Kinross, B.P 1999. p. 70-71"/> Despite his lust for earthly pleasures, Bayezid was a religious man and used to spend hours in his personal mosque in [[Bursa]]. He also kept Islamic theologians in his circle.<ref>Kinross, B.P; ''"Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire"''. 1999. p. 73; {{ISBN|5-232-00732-7}}</ref>

In the words of the contemporary Greek historian Doukas:<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rPkcAAAAYAAJ | isbn=978-0-8143-1540-8 | title=Decline and Fall of Byzantium to the Ottoman Turks | year=1975 | publisher=Wayne State University Press }}</ref>
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|text=[Bayezid] was a feared man, precipitate in deeds of war, a persecutor of Christians as no other around him, and in the religion of the Arabs a most ardent disciple of Muhammad, whose unlawful commandments were observed to the utmost, never sleeping, spending his nights contriving intrigues and machinations against the rational flock of Christ.... His purpose was to increase the nation of the Prophet and to decrease that of the Romans. Many cities and provinces did he add to the dominion of the Muslims.|}}