Mirza Abu Bakr Dughlat
| Mirza Abu Bakr Dughlat | |
|---|---|
| Dughlat Kashgari | |
 1494-Abubekr Duglat attempting unsuccessfully to take Uzgend | |
| Reign | 1465-1514 |
| Died | 1514 |
| Burial | North of Shahidulla |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Mirza Abu Bakr Dughlat (also Ababakar or Abubekr; died shortly after
Khotan and Kashgar; he took Kashgar in 1480.[3] He was the son of Saniz Mirza, son of Mir Sayyid Ali, the latter was amir in Kashgar who regained control of the city by Dughlat dynasty, having expelled Timurid
local ruler in 1435.
He successfully resisted the attacks of
Badakhshan, and other fragments of Moghulistan.[5]
In 1514, Sultan Said Khan took Kashgar from him. In danger of losing Yarkand and Khotan as well, he gave the government to his eldest son Jahangir Mirza, and attempted to flee to Ladakh.[6] He was intercepted and killed by pursuers sent by Sultan Said Khan north of Shahidulla.[1]
His deeds are recorded in the Mirza Muhammad Haidar.
Family
- Consorts
Abu Bakr had two wives:
- Husn Nigar Khanum, daughter of Esen Buqa II;
- Khanzada Begum, daughter of Sultan Mahmud Mirza;
- Sons
Abu Bakr had three sons;
- Jahangir Mirza - with Husn Nigar Khanum;
- Turangir Mirza - with Khanzada Begum;
- Bustangir Mirza - with Khanzada Begum;
References
- Demetrius Charles Boulger, The Life of Yakoob Beg, Athalik Ghazi and Badaulet, Ameer of Kashgar, pp. 34–36.
Notes
- ^ a b Bellew, Henry Walter (1875). The history of Káshgharia. p. 62.
[Sa'id] took possession of the city at end of Rajab 920H ... Ababakar fled before them from Khotan to Karangutagh. ... fled towards Tibet. ... He was intercepted, seized, and killed by a party of his many pursuers in the Karakash valley, where a mean tomb on the river bank, two stages from Shahidulla Khoja, now marks the site of his grave.
- ISBN 978-1-83860-867-5.
Mir Abu Bakr Dughlat (r. in Yarkand ca. 1481-1516)
- ^ M. Th. Houtsma, E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936, p. 788.
- ^ guide central asia - peoples - regions - languages - central asia
- ^ Dughlát Muhammad Haidar (1895). The Tarikh-i-rashidi: A History of the Moghuls of Central Asia; an English Version. S. Low, Marston and Company. pp. 253–254.
After the above mentioned victory over Sultan Ahmad Khan, Mirza Aba Bakr begin to extend his conquest on all sides. ... subdued most of the districts of Tibet as far as the frontiers of Kashmir, ... He next sent armies in the direction of Balur, which gained decisive victories ... he sent a force into Badakhshan, where he subdued most of the Hazara of Badakhshan. ... He took Ush, Madu and Uzkand from the Uzbeg, and reduced the whole of Moghulistan to such a condition, that not a single Moghul was able to remain in the country
- ^ René Grousset, The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia (1970 translation), p. 497.