Alymbek Datka

Born into the Bargy tribe in the Alai Valley, the son of the wealthy and influential Asan-biy, Alymbek was invited to Kokand by Madali Khan at twenty-seven and in 1831 received the title Datka, "the just ruler", from the same khan ¹. He was made ruler of the Andijan vilayet, moved his seat to Osh, and rose to become vizier of the khanate ². In 1832 he married Kurmanjan, then a young woman of the Osh region ¹.

Alymbek led the Osh uprising of 1844 against Musulmankul, supported the Kyrgyz-backed claimant Khoja-Tora in Kashgar against the khan's own policy, and in 1858 helped raise Malla Khan to the Kokand throne at the battle of Samanchi, after which he again governed Andijan ¹. Accused before the khan of refusing battle with the Russians after Uzun-Agach, he plotted in turn; on 24 February 1862 he took part in the conspiracy that killed Malla Khan, briefly served as atalyk to the boy-khan Shah Murad, and was himself murdered by palace conspirators at Kokand that year ^{3 1}. His widow Kurmanjan was recognised by the khans of Bukhara and Kokand as ruler of the Alai in his place.

The only school statement for Alymbek in any edition read stands in the Russian article's infobox — Sunni Islam — an infobox field referenced to no text; the Kyrgyz article records only that he built a madrasa for children, the Uzbek article that he built mosques and madrasas at Osh, and Wikidata carries no religion value at all ^{1 3 2 4}. Patronage and building are acts, not attestations. His faith segment is therefore recorded as unknown, flagged, with the Sunni infobox reading preserved in the record's note.

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