Category:Ahmad Alaq

Ahmad Alaq 

Khan of Eastern Moghulistan from 1487 to 1503 The Younger Khan, Alasha, the Slayer (detail), paying homage to Babur near Yagha village situated between Tashkent and Sairam (1502-03). Baburnama of 1598
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Date of birth	1465 Moghulistan
Date of death	1504 Aksu
Position held	khan
Family	Genghisid Chaghatayid dynasty
Father	Yunus Khan
Mother	Shah Begum
Child	Mansur Khan Sultan Said Khan Chin Timur Khan
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Ahmad Alaq, Yarkand Khaganate. Ahmad Alaq was known as "Kichik Khan" ("Young Khan") by Babur.^[1][2] One of his sons was Sultan Said Khan.

• "Babur’s maternal grandfather, Yunas Khan (...) Two of Yunas Khan’s sons, and therefore Babur’s maternal uncles, were major figures in Babur’s early political struggles. They were Sultan Mahmud Khan (d. 1509), who became the ruler of Tashkent after his father’s death. He was the tuqqan or relation with whom Babur took refuge in 1502. His younger brother and therefore another of Babur’s maternal uncles, Sultan Ahmad Khan (Kichik or Alachah Khan) (d. 1504), sometimes joined forces with Sultan Mahmud Khan. He was the ruler of Aqsu and neighboring regions of the Altï Shahr (Six Cities) country in central and eastern Mughulistan along the southern skirt of the Tien Shan mountains, about four hundred miles and thirty-five days journey east-northeast of Andijan. Ahmad Khan had gone to Mughulistan in 1485, says Babur’s cousin, Haydar Mirza, in the same year when the then elderly Yunas Khan settled in Tashkent. This was two years after Babur’s birth in the nearby Ferghanah valley. At that time Mughulistan was still a region whose Mongol inhabitants, in Haydar Mirza’s words, “hated cities.”^[3]

• "Babur’s uncle Kichik Khan, dressed for ceremonial occasions in Chinese brocades."^[4]

• Baburnama pp. 158-159

1. ↑ The Garden of the Eight Paradises: Bābur and the Culture of Empire in Central Asia, Afghanistan and India (1483-1530), Stephen Frederic Dale, BRILL, 2004, p.112
2. ↑ Babur, Stephen F. Dale, Cambridge University Press, 2018 p.43
3. ↑ The Garden of the Eight Paradises: Bābur and the Culture of Empire in Central Asia, Afghanistan and India (1483-1530), Stephen Frederic Dale, BRILL, 2004, pp.75-76
4. ↑ The Garden of the Eight Paradises: Bābur and the Culture of Empire in Central Asia, Afghanistan and India (1483-1530), Stephen Frederic Dale, BRILL, 2004, p.147