Shaybani Khan by Aslam Rahi MA

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Muhammad Shaybani Khan, also known as Abul-Fath Shaybani Khan or Shayabak Khan or Shahi Beg Khan, originally named “Shibägh”, which means “wormwood” or “obsidian”(c. 1451 – 2 December 1510), was an Uzbek leader who consolidated various Uzbek tribes and laid the foundations for their ascendance in Transoxiana and the establishment of the Khanate of Bukhara. He was a Shaybanid or descendant of Shiban (or Shayban), the fifth son of Jochi, Genghis Khan’s eldest son. He was the son of Shah-Budag, thus a grandson of the Uzbek conqueror Abu’l-Khayr Khan.