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{{Infobox monarch
| name               = Qasym Khan
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| reign              = 
| coronation         = 
| full name          = Qasym Khan Zhanibekuly
| birth_date         = 1445
| birth_place        = [[Kazakh Khanate]]
| death_date         = 1521
| death_place        = [[Kazakh Khanate]]
| burial_date        = 
| burial_place       = 
| predecessor        =Burundyq Khan
| successor          = Mamash Khan
| spouse             = Aisha Khanum

Hanik Sultan Khanum

[[Sultan Nigar Khanum]]
| issue              = 
| royal house        = Burundyq Khan
| dynasty            = Tore
| father             = [[Zhanibek Khan]]
| mother             = Jagan-begim Khanum
| religion           = [[Islam]]
}}
'''Qasym Khan''' ({{Lang-kk|Қасым хан}}) was the leader of the [[Kazakh Khanate]] from about 1511 to 1521.<ref name=coskazak>{{cite web|last=Curtis|first=Glenn E.|title=Forming the Modern Nation|url=http://countrystudies.us/kazakstan/3.htm|work=Kazakstan: A Country Study|publisher=GPO for the Library of Congress|accessdate=19 February 2011}}</ref> He was the son of [[Janybek Khan|Zhanibek Khan]] who was one of the founding fathers of [[Kazakh Khanate|Qazaq Horde]] by escaping with his confederacy to [[Moghulistan]] from the [[Uzbeks|Uzbek]] chief [[Abu'l-Khayr Khan|Abul-Khayr Khan]]. Kasym Khan is viewed as the first leader who united the Kazakh tribes.<ref name="coskazak" /> Although, [[Baranduk Khan]] was the Khan of the Kazakhs, control of the government was in the hands of Kasym Khan. Eventually he sent [[Baranduk Khan]] into exile who died at [[Samarkand]]. Kasym Khan had a brother named Adik Khan who was married to Sultana Nigar Khanim, daughter of [[Yunus Khan]] of [[Moghulistan]]. When Adik Khan died, Kasym Khan took her as his wife.

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{{succession box | before = [[Burunduq Khan]] | title = [[Kazakh Khanate|Khan of the Kazakhs]] | years =1511-1521 | after = [[Mamash Khan]]}}
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==See also==
*[[Kazakh people]]
*[[Muhammad Shaybani]]
*[[Babur]]

==References==
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