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بركة خان

بركة خان

c. 1267 CE · 665 AH

Berke Khan, khan of the Golden Horde — a Muslim who corresponded with Baybars and broke his cousin Hulagu in a great battle where multitudes were slain and drowned; grandson of Genghis, he died in the 660s AH 1. Under year 665 Ibn al-Imad gives the obituary: 'Berke b. Tuli b. Genghis Khan, sultan of the Qipchaq realm, who became Muslim and corresponded with al-Zahir and broke his cousin Hulagu — he died in his sixties, and his nephew Mangu-Timur reigned after him' 2.

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Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abagha Khan · Abu Shama al-Dimashqi · Afif al-Din al-Tilimsani · Afif al-Din ibn Mazru' · Ahmad al-Badawi

Overview

Berke Khan, a Tatar king, who became a Muslim and corresponded with the Mamluk sultan al-Zahir Baybars. Ibn al-Imad says that he defeated his cousin Hulagu in a great battle. 3

Ibn Khaldun says that after he returned to Bukhara he met the shaykh al-Bakhuri of the companions of Najm al-Din Kubra, and became a Muslim at his hand. He asked his brother Mangu-Timur for leave to take over the affairs of the caliphate, and was given it. 4

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Child of
Jochi (Tushi) ibn Genghis Khan

People and things also explored

Chaghatay ibn Genghis Khan· جنكزخان قان التتار· Ogedei ibn Genghis Khan· The Jochid state of the Dasht (Golden Horde)· Jochi (Tushi) ibn Genghis Khan

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 305
  2. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 552
  3. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p.305
  4. Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun , p.1536
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Chaghatay ibn Genghis Khan

Chaghatay ibn Genghis Khan, called Kaday among them; his father assigned him the realms from the Uyghur lands to Samarkand, Bukhara and Transoxiana — he died without completing his course, and Monke set his sons over Transoxiana in fulfilment of Genghis's bequest to their father, their line settling at Samarkand and its districts.