Ibak Khan (died 1495) was a

Shaybanid The Shibanids or Shaybanids ( fa, سلسله شیبانیان) or more accurately the Abu'l-Khayrid-Shibanids were a Persianized''Introduction: The Turko-Persian tradition'', Robert L. Canfield, Turko-Persia in Historical Perspective, ed. Robert L ...

khan of Sibir about whom the sources are contradictory. He is also called Abak, Ivak, Ibaq, Khan of Tyumen, and Said Ibrakhim Khan(?). With the breakup of the

Golden Horde The Golden Horde, self-designated as Ulug Ulus, 'Great State' in Turkic, was originally a Mongols, Mongol and later Turkicized khanate established in the 13th century and originating as the northwestern sector of the Mongol Empire. With the fr ...

the regional powers were the

Nogais The Nogais ( Nogai: Ногай, , Ногайлар, ) are a Turkic ethnic group who live in the North Caucasus region. Most are found in Northern Dagestan and Stavropol Krai, as well as in Karachay-Cherkessia and Astrakhan Oblast; some als ...

south of the Urals, the Shaybanids southeast of the Urals and the Taibugas in the forested lands to the east. The last two alternated control over the

Khanate of Sibir The Khanate of Sibir (also Khanate of Turan, sty, Себер ханлыгы) was a Tatar Khanate located in southwestern Siberia with a Turco-Mongol ruling class. Throughout its history, members of the Shaybanid and Taibugid dynasties often con ...

. From about 1428, the Shaybanid

Abu'l-Khayr Khan Abu'l-Khayr Khan ( uz, Abulxayirxon) (1412–1468) was a Khan of the Uzbek Khanate which united the nomadic Central Asian tribes.

killed the Siberian Khan, Hajji Muhammad and established a brief empire that stretched from Sibir to the Syr Darya. As people and power drifted southeast, the remaining Shaybanids coalesced around Ibak (Allworth, p. 47). In 1464 (many sources), or after Abu’l Khayr’s death in 1468 (Forsyth.p25) or about 1480 (Grosset) Ibak, with the help of the

, killed Mar, the Taibugid Khan, and became the Khan of Sibir. At some date, the Nogai brothers Musa and Yamgurchi were at war and Yamgurchi invited Ibak from Tyumen. He appeared along the Volga claiming to have a better right to rule the

Great Horde The Great Horde (''Uluğ Orda'') was a rump state of the Golden Horde that existed from the mid-15th century to 1502. It was centered at the core of the Golden Horde at Sarai. Both the Khanate of Astrakhan and the Khanate of Crimea broke away ...

than Ahmed Khan (Howarth, p. 980). At the time of the Ugra standoff Ibak may have has some arrangement with Moscow to threaten Ahmed in the rear. In 1491 Ibak and Yamgurchi (and Musa?) killed Ahmed Khan on 6 January 1481. (Khodarkovsky in a footnote implies that there is some doubt about the details). In 1495 (most common), or 1494, or 1493 (Grosset, p. 489) Ibak was killed by Mamut, a grandson of Mar (Howarth, p. 981), who then became Khan of Sibir. His son Murtaza was a power on the Steppe after 1502. His grandson

Kuchum Kuchum Khan (Siberian Tatar ''Köçöm'', Russian: ''Кучум''; died c. 1601) was the last Khan of Siberia who ruled from 1563 to 1598. Kuchum Khan's attempt to spread Islam and his cross-border raids met with vigorous opposition from the Ru ...

was the last Khan of Sibir. His younger brother Mamuk was briefly (1495–96) Khan of Kazan.

References

# Allworth, Edward, ‘The modern Uzbeks’,1990 (on books.google.com) # Forsyth, James, ‘A History of the Peoples of Siberia’,1994 (on books.google.com) # Grosset, Rene, ‘The Empire of the Stepps’, 1970 # Howarth, Henry Hoyle, ‘History of the Mongols’, 1880 (on books.google.com) # Khodarkovsky, Michael, ‘Russia’s Steppe Frontier’, 2002 Mongol khans Khanate of Sibir 1495 deaths Year of birth unknown 15th-century monarchs in Asia {{Mongolia-bio-stub

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