Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The beginnings
- 2 The Kök Turks, the Chinese expansion, and the Arab conquest
- 3 The Samanids
- 4 The Uighur kingdom of Qocho
- 5 The Qarakhanids
- 6 Seljukids and Ghaznavids
- 7 The conquering Mongols
- 8 The Chaghatayids
- 9 Timur and the Timurids
- 10 The last Timurids and the first Uzbeks
- 11 The Shaybanids
- 12 The rise of Russia, the fall of the Golden Horde, and the resilient Chaghatayids
- 13 The Buddhist Mongols
- 14 Bukhara, Khiva, and Khoqand in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries
- 15 The Russian conquest and rule of Central Asia
- 16 From Governorates-General to Union Republics
- 17 Soviet Central Asia
- 18 Central Asia becomes independent
- 19 Sinkiang as part of China
- 20 Independent Central Asian Republics
- 21 The Republic of Mongolia
- Summary and conclusion
- Appendix 1 Dynastic tables
- Appendix 2 Country data
- Select bibliography
- Index
11 - The Shaybanids
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The beginnings
- 2 The Kök Turks, the Chinese expansion, and the Arab conquest
- 3 The Samanids
- 4 The Uighur kingdom of Qocho
- 5 The Qarakhanids
- 6 Seljukids and Ghaznavids
- 7 The conquering Mongols
- 8 The Chaghatayids
- 9 Timur and the Timurids
- 10 The last Timurids and the first Uzbeks
- 11 The Shaybanids
- 12 The rise of Russia, the fall of the Golden Horde, and the resilient Chaghatayids
- 13 The Buddhist Mongols
- 14 Bukhara, Khiva, and Khoqand in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries
- 15 The Russian conquest and rule of Central Asia
- 16 From Governorates-General to Union Republics
- 17 Soviet Central Asia
- 18 Central Asia becomes independent
- 19 Sinkiang as part of China
- 20 Independent Central Asian Republics
- 21 The Republic of Mongolia
- Summary and conclusion
- Appendix 1 Dynastic tables
- Appendix 2 Country data
- Select bibliography
- Index
Summary
Muhammad (ruled 1500–10), the Uzbek khan who dashed Babur's lifetime dream, accomplished more than that, for he put an end to the Timurid dynasty and replaced it with his own, that of the Shaybanids (1500–99) and thus carried out a restoration of Genghisid rule in Central Asia. He was a grandson of Abulkhayr, whose Genghisid lineage, as we have seen, went back to Genghis Khan's grandson Shiban. The nisba derived from the Mongol name was vocalized as Shaybani by Muslim historians who preferred its unrelated Arabic approximation. By 1501 Muhammad Shaybani had crossed the Syr Darya, seized Samarkand from Babur's cousin Ali, and fought off all attempts by Babur and other contenders to recover their Timurid heirloom; seven years later, in 1507, he made a successful lunge for the other Timurid prize, Herat, so that the greater part of Central Asia now passed under the control of the nomadic Uzbeks from the Kipchak steppe. Up to a point the change was only one of degree. The Shaybanids were Turks like the Timurids, although they spoke a different dialect, Kipchak, in contrast to the local Turki; both led a partly nomadic way of life and had a tribal social structure, although again this must have been more pronounced among the newcomers; both were Sunni Muslims, like the bulk of the sedentary population of the area; and the Uzbeks had been sufficiently exposed to Arabo-Persian Islamic culture to ensure a fundamental continuity.
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- A History of Inner Asia , pp. 149 - 161Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000