Ibak Khan, born Sayyid Ibrahim Khan (

Turki Chagatai (, ), also known as Turki, Eastern Turkic, or Chagatai Turkic (), is an extinct Turkic language that was once widely spoken across Central Asia. It remained the shared literary language in the region until the early 20th century. It was ...

/ Kypchak and ; died 1495) was a Shaybanid khan of Sibir about whom the sources are contradictory. He is also called Abak, Ivak, Ibaq, Khan of Tyumen, and possibly Said Ibrakhim Khan. With the breakup of the

Golden Horde The Golden Horde, self-designated as ''Ulug Ulus'' ( in Turkic) was originally a Mongols, Mongol and later Turkicized khanate established in the 13th century and originating as the northwestern sector of the Mongol Empire. With the division of ...

the regional powers were the

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south of the Urals, the Shaybanids southeast of the Urals and the Taibugas in the forested lands to the east. The last two alternated control over the

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. From about 1428, the Shaybanid

Abu'l-Khayr Khan Abu'l-Khayr Khan (Turki/Cuman language, Kypchak and Persian language, Persian: ابو الخیر خان; –1468), also known as Bulgar Khan, was Khan (title), Khan of the Uzbek Khanate from 1428 to 1468, which united the nomadic Central Asian t ...

killed the Siberian Khan, Hajji Muhammad and established a brief empire that stretched from Sibir to the

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. As people and power drifted southeast, the remaining Shaybanids coalesced around Ibak (Allworth, p. 47). In 1464 (many sources), or after Abu’l Khayr’s death in 1468 (Forsyth.p25) or about 1480 (Grosset) Ibak, with the help of the

, killed Mar, the Taibugid Khan, and became the Khan of Sibir. At some date, the Nogai brothers Musa and Yamgurchi were at war and Yamgurchi invited Ibak from Tyumen. He appeared along the Volga claiming to have a better right to rule the

Great Horde The Great Horde (, ''Uluğ Orda'') was the rump state of the Golden Horde that existed from the mid-15th century to 1502. It was centered at the core of the former Golden Horde at Sarai on the lower Volga. Both the Khanate of Astrakhan and the ...

than Ahmed Khan (Howarth, p. 980). At the time of the Ugra standoff Ibak may have has some arrangement with Moscow to threaten Ahmed in the rear. In 1481 Ibak and Yamgurchi (and Musa?) killed Ahmed Khan on 6 January 1481. (Khodarkovsky in a footnote implies that there is some doubt about the details). In 1495 (most common), or 1494, or 1493 (Grosset, p. 489) Ibak was killed by Mamut, a grandson of Mar (Howarth, p. 981), who then became Khan of Sibir. His son Murtaza was a power on the Steppe after 1502. His grandson

Kuchum Kuchum Khan ( Turki and , Siberian Tatar: ''Köçöm; Көцөм'', Russian: ''Кучум''; died c. 1601) was the last Khan of Siberia who ruled from 1563 to 1598. Kuchum Khan's attempt to spread Islam and his cross-border raids met with vig ...

was the last Khan of Sibir. His younger brother Mamuk was briefly (1495–96) Khan of Kazan.

References

# Allworth, Edward, ‘The modern Uzbeks’, 1990 (on books.google.com) # Forsyth, James, ‘A History of the Peoples of Siberia’, 1994 (on books.google.com) # Grosset, Rene, ‘The Empire of the Stepps’, 1970 # Howarth, Henry Hoyle, ‘History of the Mongols’, 1880 (on books.google.com) # Khodarkovsky, Michael, ‘Russia’s Steppe Frontier’, 2002 15th-century Mongol khans People from the Khanate of Sibir 1495 deaths Year of birth unknown 15th-century monarchs in Asia {{Mongolia-bio-stub

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