Mubarak Shah (
Chagatai and
Persian: مبارک شاه) was
Khan of the
Chagatai Khanate
The Chagatai Khanate, also known as the Chagatai Ulus, was a Mongol and later Turkification, Turkicized khanate that comprised the lands ruled by Chagatai Khan, second son of Genghis Khan, and his descendants and successors. At its height in the l ...
(1252–1260; March–September 1266) he was the son and successor of
Qara Hülegü.
Biography
He was the son of
Qara Hülëgü (son of
Mötüken) and
Ergene Khatun (daughter of Toralji Küregen). He was the first Chagatai Khan to convert to
Islam
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. Upon the death of his father in 1252, Mubarak Shah succeeded him as Chagatai Khan, with his mother
Orghana acting as regent. In 1260, however, the
Great Khan claimant
Ariq Böke
Ariq Böke (after 1219–1266), the components of his name also spelled Arigh, Arik and Bukha, Buka (, ; ), was the seventh and youngest son of Tolui and a grandson of Genghis Khan. After the death of his brother the Great Khan Möngke, Ariq Bök ...
appointed
Chagatai Khan's grandson
Alghu, and by the following year Alghu had control over much of the Khanate. When Alghu revolted against Ariq Böke in 1262, Orghana supported him. After Alghu died in 1266, Ergene enthroned Mubarak Shah as head of the ''ulus'' again, without the permission of
Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan (23 September 1215 – 18 February 1294), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Shizu of Yuan and his regnal name Setsen Khan, was the founder and first emperor of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty of China. He proclaimed the ...
, who was also proclaimed the Great Khan and defeated Ariq Böke 2 years after. Kublai Khan, however, supported
Baraq, a great-grandson of Chagatai as his co-ruler.
Baraq gained the loyalty of Mubarak Shah's army and soon moved against him, exiling him that year. Later, Mubarak Shah supported
Kaidu
Kaidu (; Middle Mongol: , Modern Mongol: , ''Khaidu'' ; c. 1235 – 1301) was a grandson of the Mongol khagan Ögedei (1185–1241) and thus leader of the House of Ögedei and the '' de facto'' khan of the Chagatai Khanate, a division of t ...
against Baraq in 1271, but soon felt compelled to defect to another enemy of Kaidu, the
Ilkhan
Il Khan (also ''il-khan'', ''ilkhan'', ''elkhan'', etc.), in Turkic languages and Mongolian, is a title of leadership. It combines the title ''khan'' with the prefix ''el/il'', from the word ''ulus'' – 'tribe, clan', 'the people', 'nation', ' ...
Abaqa.
Abaqa Khan
Abaqa Khan (27 February 1234 – 4 April 1282, , "paternal uncle", also transliterated Abaġa), was the second Mongol ruler ('' Ilkhan'') of the Ilkhanate. The son of Hulagu Khan and Lady Yesünčin and the grandson of Tolui, he reigned from 1265 ...
appointed him a chief of the
Qaraunas. He died of natural causes while ravaging south-east
Persian regions in 1276.
Family
He had several wives and concubines with whom he had five sons:
# Öljei Buqa
#* Qutluqshah
# Boralqi
#* Tutluq
# Horqadai
# Esen Pulad
# Qadaq
References
1276 deaths
Chagatai khans
Mongol Empire Muslims
Converts to Islam from Buddhism
13th-century monarchs in Asia
Year of birth unknown
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