Several caliphs and emirs owned vineyards and drank wine. Kemal instantly calls the police admitting to shooting Emir and walks out of Emirs house. Most of the emirs, as the powerful landed aristocracy of the sultanate, supported Kaykaus. Several of the minor emirs in the vicinity of Tripoli sought Sicilian overlordship after this. During this time, Khalil Sultan began to lose support among his emirs in Samarqand. Ma Zhancang beheaded the Uighur emirs Abdullah Bughra and Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra. Theobald negotiated with the warring emirs of Damascus and Egypt. By then, mamluk solidarity and loyalty to the emirs had dissipated. Frequently facing rebellions by local emirs, he was forced to abdicate in 1412. From 1756 to 1868, Samarkand was ruled by the Manghud (Mongol) Emirs of Bukhara. Beirut was controlled by local Druze emirs throughout the Ottoman period. He exterminated the rivaling Emirs of Ha'il. Mamluk emirs also had their own "ustadars". The treachery of Khayr Baig and many other emirs made the prospect all the darker. The Rashidi emirs cooperated closely with the Ottoman Empire.