Edigu
Edigu (also Edigey, Eðivkäy or Edege Mangit; 1352–1419) was a
Life
Edigu was from the
In 1397, Edigu allied himself with
In 1406, he located his old enemy Tokhtamysh in Siberia. Edigu's agents killed Tokhtamysh. The following year he raided Volga Bulgaria. In 1408, he staged a destructive Tatar invasion of Russia, which had not paid the tribute due to the horde for several decades. Edigu burnt Nizhny Novgorod, Gorodets, Rostov, and many other towns but failed to take Moscow, though he still burnt it.
Two years later, Edigu was dethroned in the
In 1419, he was assassinated by one of Tokhtamysh's sons in Sarai. Edigu's dynasty in the Nogai Horde continued for about two centuries, until his last descendants moved to Moscow, where they took baptism and became known as Princes Urusov and Yusupov.
Assessment
The Mamluk-era historian Al-Maqrizi describes him as being courageous, generous and someone "who loved Islamic scholars and sought to be close to the pious". He praises him for being a righteous Muslim who fasted and followed the laws of Islam. Al-Maqrizi also says that Edigu prohibited the Tatars from selling their sons and due to this not many of them were bought to the Mamluk territories of Egypt and Syria.[3]
References
- ^ Devin DeWeese, Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde (2010), p. 338
- ^ Ivakin G. (1996). "Історичний розвиток Києва XIII – середина XVI ст" [Historical development of Kyiv XIII – middle of XVI century]. litopys.org.ua (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 8 July 2017.
- ^ المقريزي, تقي الدين (2002). الجليلي, محمود (ed.). درر العقود الفريدة في تراجم الاعيان المفيدة (in Arabic). دار الغرب الإسلامي. p. 436.
Bibliography
- . Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906.
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