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'''Abdurashid Khan''' ({{lang-ug|عبد الرشيد خان|}}), was the ruler of a [[khanate]] in modern-day [[Yarkant County]], [[Xinjiang]] between 1533 and 1560.

==Biography==

Abdurashid Khan was a descendant of the first Moghul Khan [[Tughlugh Timur|Tughluk Timur]] Khan (1347-1363) and was born in 1508. He came to power in 1533 when his father and predecessor [[Sultan Said Khan]] died of [[asthma]] during a military expedition in [[Tibet]].

One of Abdul Rasid Khan's wives was [[Amannisa Khan]]. She is credited with collecting and thereby preserving the [[Twelve Muqam]], which is today considered a musical style of the [[Uyghur people|Uyghur]] people of northwest China. The Muqam of Xinjiang has been designated by [[UNESCO]] as part of the Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

In 1538, Abdurashid Khan concluded a treaty with [[Uzbekistan|Uzbek]] Chief Ubaydullah Sultan, who ruled the [[Khanate of Bukhara]] at the time (1533–1539). He also completed a similar treaty with the [[Moghul Empire]] in [[India]]. During the negotiations with Ubaydullah Sultan, a [[Naqshbandi]] [[Sufi]] teacher Ahmad Kasani (1462–1542), known as ''Makhdum-i ' Azam'' (the Great Master) came to [[Kashgar]] from [[Samarkand]] and was granted land there. His descendants, known as ''Makhdum Zadas'' and bearing title "[[Khoja (Turkestan)|Khoja]]", played an important role in the [[history of Xinjiang]] during the 16th to 19th centuries.

The descendants of Makhdum's eldest son Muhammad Amin (died in 1598), or Ishan Kalan, the founder of the ''Ishkiyya'' branch of the Sufi order ([[tariqa]]) ''Naqshbandi khojagan'', established themselves in Kashgar and became known as the ''[[Aq Tagh]]liks'', those of the [[Tian Shan]] (or "White Mountains"). The descendants of his second son, Ishaq Wali (died in 1599), founder of branch ''Ishakiyya'' of the Sufi order ''Naqshbandi khojagan'', established themselves in [[Yarkant County|Yarkand]] and became known as the ''Kara Taghliks'', those of the "Black Mountains", i.e. the [[Pamir Mountains|Pamirs]], [[Karakorum]] and [[Kunlun Mountains|Kunlun]].

Abdurashid Khan was featured by statue of the body and strength of hands. He had no equal in shooting with bow and also was a talant musician, he wrote a music '' Shirashangiz '' which was very popular in the Yarkand Khanate. He also completely learned 12 Mukams, classical Uyghur music. He liked to change his clothes, following Khalif [[Harun al-Rashid]], and wander among population without recognition. He made three trips to [[Khotan]] in such clothes and he died here during his last trip.

After his death in 1560, Abdurashid Khan was succeeded in Yarkand by his second son [[Abdul Karim Khan (Yarkand)]] (ruled 1560–1591).

Between 1541 and 1546, the historian and ruler of [[Kashmir]] on behalf of [[Babur]]'s descendants, [[Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat]], wrote the book "Tarih-i-Rashidi" (''The history of Rashid''). He devoted it to Abdurashid Khan, despite the fact that he himself was expelled by the Khan with many of his relatives from [[Kashgaria]]. It had been under the rule of his ancestors, the Dughlat Amirs, for about 300 years (1219–1514), beginning with Dughlat Amir [[Babdaghan]] (Tarkhan), who was granted the country "[[Mangalai Suyah]]" (Faced to Sun) by [[Chagatai Khan]], second son of [[Chengiz Khan]].

==Royal Cemetery of Yarkand Khanates==
[[File:Yarkand-tumbas-reyes-d09.jpg|thumb|left|Tombs of Yarkand Khans (near the [[Altyn Mosque]])]]

Next to Sultan said are buried here Abdurashid Khan, Abdul Karim Khan, Muhammad Khan, Ahmed Khan, Abdul Latif Khan and their descendants, as well as the Muqam (Mukam) -teacher, poet and musician Aman Isa Khan (1526-1560, the wife of the second ruler Abdurashid Khan)

[[File:Yarkand-tumbas-reyes-d01.jpg|thumb]]

==Genealogy of Chaghatai Khanate==

In Babr Nama written by [[Babur]], Page 19, Chapter 1; described genealogy of his maternal grandfather Yunas Khan as:

"Yunas Khan descended from Chaghatal Khan, the second
son of Chlngiz Khan (as follows,) Yunas Khan, son of Wais
Khan, son of Sher-'ali Aughldn, son of Muhammad Khan, son
of Khizr Khwaja Khan, son of Tughluq-timur Khan, son of
Aisan-bugha Khan, son of Dawa Khan, son of Baraq Khan,
son of Yesuntawa Khan, son of Muatukan, son of Chaghatal
Khan, son of Chingiz Khan"

<ref>The Babur Nama in English, Zahiru'd-din Mubammad Babur Padshah Ghdzt, ANNETTE SUSANNAH BEVERIDGE</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="margin:1em auto 1em auto; page-break-inside:avoid"
|+ '''Genealogy of Abdul Karim Khan according to ''Tarikh-i-Rashidi'' of [[Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat]]'''
|- valign="top"
| style="border:none;"| <ol start="1">
<li>[[Chingiz Khan]]</li>
<li>[[Chaghatai Khan]]</li>
<li>[[Mutukan]]</li>
<li>[[Yesü Nto'a]]</li>
<li>[[Ghiyas-ud-din Baraq]]</li>
<li>[[Duwa]]</li>
<li>[[Esen Buqa I]]</li>
</ol>
| style="border:none"| <ol start="8">
<li>[[Tughlugh Timur]]</li>
<li>[[Khizr Khoja]]</li>
<li>[[Muhammad Khan (Khan of Moghulistan)]]</li>
<li>[[Shir Ali Oglan]]</li>
<li>[[Uwais Khan]](Vaise Khan)</li>
<li>[[Yunus Khan]]</li>
<li>[[Ahmad Alaq]]''</li>
</ol>
| style="border:none"| <ol start="15">
<li>[[Sultan Said Khan]]</li>
<li>Abdurashid Khan</li>
<li>[[Muhammad Sultan]]</li>
<li>[[Shudja ad Din Ahmad Khan]]</li>
<li>[[Abdal Latif Sultan (Afak Khan)]]</li>
</ol>
|}

Research project by Dr Abdul Rauf Mughal

==Chughtai Khanate (Kashgaria)==

{{s-start}}

{{s-bef|before=[[Sultan Said Khan]]}}
{{s-ttl|title=[[Yarkant County|Yarkand Khanate]]|years=1533–1560}}
{{s-aft|after= [[Abdul Karim Khan (Yarkand)|Abdul Karim Khan]]}}
{{end}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Notes==
*http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsFarEast/AsiaKyrgyzstan.htm
*http://persian.packhum.org/persian/main?url=pf%3Ffile%3D06901021%26ct%3D10
*http://www.orientalstudies.ru/eng/index.php?option=com_publications&Itemid=75&pub=1416

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[[Category:1508 births]]
[[Category:1560 deaths]]
[[Category:History of Xinjiang]]
[[Category:Uyghurs]]
[[Category:Yarkent Khanate]]
[[Category:Descendants of Genghis Khan]]
[[Category:Chagatai khans]]

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