Soyurghatmish or Soyurghatmish Mirza (1399, 17 November 1426) was a Timurid prince and a son of the Timurid Emperor

Shah Rukh Shah Rukh or Shahrukh Mirza (, ''Šāhrokh''; 20 August 1377 – 13 March 1447) was the ruler of the Timurid Empire between 1405 and 1447. He was the son of the Central Asian conqueror Timur (Tamerlane), who founded the Timurid dynasty in 1370 ...

and his wife Malikat Agha. He became Timurid Viceroy of

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and

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. In 1413, when his father left for Mazandaran to begin a campaign against Qara Yusuf

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the following year, he left Soyurghatmish as governor-general in

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. He was also possibly in charge of

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from 1414. Iskandar sent a servant named Kafi Islam that winter to incite rebellion in Sistan and Kandahar, but Kafi Islam was recognized at the caravanserai of Exteran by a servant of the daroga of Tabas, who informed his lord, and the latter informed Soyurghatmish, who alerted Malik Qutb al-Din in Sistan with orders to have Kafi Islam arrested and brought to Herat. This was done, and from the capital he was sent to Shah Rukh's army. Later, there were internal conflicts in

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and Shah Rukh appointed his son Soyurghatmish to govern and administer the country; in August 1417 the prince moved to Badakhshan with a military contingent and soon restored tranquility. The emperor allowed the former Shah Baha al-Din to reside in the country under the authority of Soyurghatmish. In 1417/1418 Prince Qaydu ibn Pir Muhammad was deposed from his governorships of Kabul, Ghazni and Kandahar and the lands up to the Indus and the emperor granted them to his son Soyurghatmish. Around 1420 or 1421 the tribal chief Jasrat Khokhar, after defeating an old enemy, Raja Bhim of Jammu, invaded the territory of the Timurid-supported

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of the

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, and ravaged the districts of Dipalpur and

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; Sikandar Tuhfa, amir of the Delhi Sultanate emperor Mubarak Shah, encoutered him in battle, but withdrew for lack of forces and left him free. At this time it was learned that the governor of Multan, Alaul Mulk, had died, and that Shaykh Ali, the deputy governor of Kabul on behalf of Soyurghatmish, intended to invade the western Punjab and Sindh region. Shaykh Ali attacked and plundered Multan but did not remain there. Malik Mahmud Hasan was sent as an emissary from Delhi to Multan to restore confidence. Upon his death in 1426 at the age of 28, he was succeeded by his son Sultan Masud Mirza.

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