Bāqī Muḥammad K̲h̲ān (باقی محمد خان) was the son of jani Muhammad/jani bek and a leader of the
Ashtarkhanid (Toqay-Timurid, Janid) dynasty in the
Khanate of Bukhara
The Khanate of Bukhara (or Khanate of Bukhoro) ( fa, , Khānāt-e Bokhārā; ) was an Uzbek state in Central Asia from 1500 to 1785, founded by the Abu'l-Khayrid dynasty, a branch of the Shaybanids. From 1533 to 1540, Bukhara briefly became its ...
from 1599–1605 AD.
After Jani-Muhammad was elected Khan in 1599, Baqi Muhammad was the de facto ruler of the Bukhara Khanate.
In the winter of 1601-02, Baqi Muhammad also faced the uprising of Abbas and Rahmankuli. In the struggle for
Badakhshan at the end of March 1603, Baqi Muhammad won. When Jani-Mohammad died, Baqi Muhammad was declared khan.
Baqi Muhammad ascended the throne with the title of khan on November 17, 1603. He made Bukhara his capital, but he spent more time in Samarkand.
Baqi Muhammad Khan died in 1605.
During his short reign, he established the legitimacy of the Tokay-Timurids in Transoxania and
Balkh
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, strengthened the system of appanage possessions, and repulsed two external attacks on his state. Baqi Muhammad Khan was engaged in great charitable activities. He built mosques and madrasahs in
Bukhara
Bukhara (Uzbek language, Uzbek: /, ; tg, Бухоро, ) is the List of cities in Uzbekistan, seventh-largest city in Uzbekistan, with a population of 280,187 , and the capital of Bukhara Region.
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, a mosque (id-gāh), a park and audience hall (kurinish-hona) in Samarkand.
[Robert D. McChesney. Central Asia vi. In the 16th-18th Centuries // Encyclopædia Iranica — Vol. V, Fasc. 2, pp. 176−193]
References
Sources
* Burton Audrey. The Bukharans. A dynastic, diplomatic and commercial history 1550−1702. — Curzon, 1997
* Robert D. McChesney. Central Asia vi. In the 16th-18th Centuries // Encyclopædia Iranica — Vol. V, Fasc. 2, pp. 176−193
* R. D. McChesney, Waqf in Central Asia: Four Hundred Years in the History of a Muslim Shrine, 1480—1889. Princeton university press, 1991
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Khanate of Bukhara
17th-century deaths
Year of birth unknown
17th-century rulers in Asia