'from Mosul';[1] Azerbaijani: Mosullu; Turkish: Musullu) was one of the most active Turkic tribes that operated during the Aq Qoyunlu and Safavid empires.
[4] Furthermore, Tahmasp I's wife was from this tribe, and his two sons who succeeded him, Ismail II and Muhammad Khudabanda, were born from her.
After Hemza Mirza rejected their demands, they only wanted the exiling of certain individuals to distant places.
In response, the Mosul-Turkmans and the Tekelis smuggled his 10-year-old brother, Tahmasb Mirza, out of the palace and proclaimed him shah in the capital, Qazvin.
[8] Anvar Chingizoglu writes that with the establishment of the Safavid Empire, the Mosulis, joining forces with the nomads, began to be called Turkmen, and they were included in the list of Qizilbash tribes.
Chingizoglu mentions that a large branch of the Mosul tribe settled in Mugan and Karabakh and later became known as Tekelis.