Irdana Khan was the Khan of

Kokand Kokand ( uz, Qo‘qon/Қўқон/قوقان, ; russian: Кока́нд; fa, خوقند, Xuqand; Chagatai: خوقند, ''Xuqand''; ky, Кокон, Kokon; tg, Хӯқанд, Xöqand) is a city in Fergana Region in eastern Uzbekistan, at the sou ...

from 1750 to 1764. He was the son of

Abd al-Rahim Biy Abd al-Rahim Biy (1697-1733) - the second ruler from the Uzbek dynasty of Ming in the Kokand Khanate. Abd al-Rahim Biy was the eldest son of Shahrukh Bek, who ascended the throne after the death of his father. During his reign, Khojent and Andij ...

and the nephew of Abdul Karim Biy.

Rise to power

After the death of Abdul Karim Biy in 1750, Erdeni was made the Khan of Kokand after slaying Abdurakhman-Batir and all of his family in Kokand except his young son Narbuta who was visiting his grandmother. After another prolonged power struggle that lasted roughly ten months between 1752 and 1753, in which Bobobek seized power and held the title of Khan, Irdana took back the title of Khan and removed Bobobek from office.

Policies as Khan

Irdana Biy took active measures to expand the borders of the Khanate, briefly annexing the land of Ura-Tyube long coveted by the Khanate; Ura-Tyube ended up changing hands multiple times to and from Kokand throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. On his second attempt to annex Ura-Tyube he was more successful in capturing the territory, brutalizing prisoners of war by chopping off their heads and constructing a tower out of their heads. After various wars in attempts to expand the Khanate and Irdana's use of the title Khan instead of Bek, the

Qing The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speaki ...

began to demand tribute from Kokand in the form of livestock and people; the Qing had informed the Khan of the Kazakh Middle Horde that they intended to take over

Samarkand fa, سمرقند , native_name_lang = , settlement_type = City , image_skyline = , image_caption = Clockwise from the top:Registan square, Shah-i-Zinda necropolis, Bibi-Khanym Mosque, view inside Shah-i-Zinda, ...

and most of Turkestan. When Irdana was informed of the plan of the Qing to take over most of Central Asia, he managed to unite the previously warring militaries of an Afghan monarch, several Kyrgyz biys and well as those of Khujand, Ura-Tyube on the premise of saving the Islamic world from takeover. The alliance, however brief, managed to prevent Qing takeover.

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{{Khans of Kokand Khans of Kokand 18th-century monarchs in Asia 1720 births 1764 deaths