Hasan b. Sulayman Bughra Khan ( Middle Turkic: بغرا خان) was an energetic ruler of western part of Karakhanid state, ruling nominally under

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, but de facto independent. He was the grandson of Satuk Bughra Khan through his second son Sulayman Khan. He inherited his father's appanages in the west sometime later before 990, becoming the founder of the Hasanid branch of the Karakhanid family.

Reign

He invaded

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domains in 991 on the invitation of disgruntled vassals and governor of Khorasan - Abu'l-Hasan Simjuri. Immediately he destroyed an army sent by

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and captured

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. Fa'iq, the Samanid governor of

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surrendered to Bughra Khan, who then marched toward

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. Nuh fled, and the Karakhanids entered the capital in the late spring of 992, where they managed to capture Abu Ali Damghani, vizier of

. He adopted honorific titles "Sahib ud-Dawla" (Possessor of the State) and "Zahir al-Dawaa" (Supporter of the Cause) same year, strucking coins in

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Death

Bughra Khan fell sick in Bukhara sometime later and Nuh's uncle Abd al-Aziz the ruler of the Samanid dynasty as a Karakhanid puppet, traveled to

, and then died on the road northward near Kochkarbashi,

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Family

He had several sons:

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who inherited his domains in west, Ali Tegin,

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, Shihab ud-Dawla Suleyman who ruled Uzgen and Adod ud-Dawla Husayn who ruled

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. Bilig (in Turkish). 40: 35–77.

References

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