Mir Yar Beg Sahibzada
Mir Yar Beg Sahibzada was a Central Asian ruler who, in 1651 became chief of the Tajiks, Tajik tribes in Yaftal, as they had invited him to come to them from Samarkand. However, two years later his dissatisfied subjects rebelled against him, built a fort at Lai Aba, and raised the Tajik Shah Imad (Qazi Arab's father-in-law) as their chief. Mir Yar Beg then retired to the court of Aurangzeb in India via Chitral. At that time Shah Nasir was the ruler of Chitral. Both the ruling families of Badakhshan and Chitral had decades-long genial relationships. Shah Nasir Rais welcomed the ousted ruler of Badakhshan and his family members; elder son Qazi Arab; two years old grandson Qazi Arbab; and daughter-in-law (wife of Qazi Arab) in Chitral. Mir Yar Beg calculatingly left behind his son Qazi Arab and his family in Chitral and traveled to Hindustan. To update his father about the Badakhshan's situation, Qazi Arab had succeeded to keep up linkages with their brothers and notable elites of Bada ...
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Central Asia
Central Asia, also known as Middle Asia, is a subregion, region of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north. It includes the former Soviet Union, Soviet republics of the Soviet Union, republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, which are colloquially referred to as the "-stans" as the countries all have names ending with the Persian language, Persian suffix "-stan", meaning "land of". The current geographical location of Central Asia was formerly part of the historic region of Turkestan, Turkistan, also known as Turan. In the pre-Islamic and early Islamic eras ( and earlier) Central Asia was inhabited predominantly by Iranian peoples, populated by Eastern Iranian languages, Eastern Iranian-speaking Bactrians, Sogdians, Khwarezmian language, Chorasmians and the semi-nomadic Scythians and Dahae. After expansion by Turkic peop ...
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