Abu'l-Khayr Khan

:"This article is about the 13^th Century Uzbek leader, for the 18th century Kazakh leader see Abul Khair Khan."Abu'l-Khayr Khan (ruled 1428–1468) was the leader who united the Uzbek confederation [http://www.google.co.uk/books?vid=ISBN0271010738&id=0TCjm7uNk0AC&pg=PA345&lpg=PA345&ots=Ygm6acLK4j&dq=Abu%27l-Khayr+Khan&sig=nPTIQGKmihE0syU2zVoI-bYPEzQ DeWeese, Devin A. (1994) "Islamization and native religion in the Golden Horde: Baba Tükles and conversion to Islam in historical and epic tradition" Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pa., p. 345] , ISBN 0-271-01072-X ] from which the Kazakh khanate later separated in rebellion under Janybek Khan and Kerei Khan beginning in 1466.

In 1428 Abu'l-Khayr Khan, a descendant of Genghis Khan, through Jöchi's fifth son Shiban [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0700706291&id=iqkiRvaDThgC&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65&ots=-Z4w7OdXl2&dq=Shiban+-Microwave&num=50&sig=PmEdlsoWkQbWJEHKAYzOgzpED4s Noelle, Christine (1997) "State and Tribe in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan: The Reign of Amir Dost Muhammad Khan (1826-1863)" Curzon, Richmond, Surrey, UK, p. 65] , ISBN 0-7007-0629-1] , and a bej of the White Horde, began consolidating various Uzbek tribes, first in the area around Tyumen and the Tura River and then down into the Syr Darya region, eventually wresting some lands from Timurid control. He deposed and killed the khan of the Khanate of Sibir after a battle on the Tobol River. [ [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0521477719&id=nzhq85nPrdsC&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=Shiban+-Microwave&num=50&sig=Yu-r5r_uobiUasdiLFQtICvC-DM Forsyth, James (1992) "A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony, 1581-1990" Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, p.25] , ISBN 0-521-47771-9 ] Abu'l-Khayr Khan was assisted in his consolidation by the Manghits ["Tavārīkh-i guzīdah nuṣrat'nāmah" microfilm of British Library ms. Or. 3222. British Museum Photographic Service, 197- , London, (Cat. Turk. p. 276) (neg. = 1364). An early 16th Century Shibanid history.] , another tribe in the White Horde, and especially by Vaqqāṣ Bej, Edigü's grandson. Vaqqāṣ joined with Abu'l-Khayr Khan in 1430 in his campaign against Khwarezm.

After Abu'l-Khayr Khan's death two separate lines of descent controlled the twin Uzbek states of Mawara al-Nahr and Khwarezm. In the first decade of the 16th century his grandson Muhammad Shaybani finally succeeded in the unification of the Uzbeks and established the short-lived Shaybanid Empire, centred in Samarkand.

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* [http://somasushma.googlepages.com/khair.htm "The rise and fall of Khan Abu'l Khair"]