Mir Hussein bin Haydar (1797–1826) was the
Uzbek Emir
Emir (; ar, أمير ' ), sometimes transliterated amir, amier, or ameer, is a word of Arabic origin that can refer to a male monarch, aristocrat, holder of high-ranking military or political office, or other person possessing actual or cerem ...
of
Bukharan Emirate
The Emirate of Bukhara ( fa, , Amārat-e Bokhārā, chg, , Bukhārā Amirligi) was a Muslim polity in Central Asia that existed from 1785 to 1920 in what is modern-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. It occupied the land ...
from October to December 1826. His father was emir
Haydar bin Shahmurad (1800–1826). Emir Haydar died in October 1826 and was succeeded by his son Mir Hussein bin Haydar.
Hussein ruled for only two months and fourteen days. According to local historian
Ahmad Donish, “this emir has achieved extraordinary perfection and merit, he mastered all sciences, including foreign ones. He knew versification, medicine, alchemy and fortune telling".
Mir Hussein reigned for only two months and fourteen days (October–December 1826). According to some reports, he was poisoned by Hakim Kushbegi.
[O nekotorykh sobytiyakh v Bukhare, Khokande i Kashgare. Zapiski Mirzy Shemsa Bukhari, izdannyy v tekste, s perevodom i primechaniyami V. V. Grigor'yevym. Kazan', 1861, s.23] Emir Mir Hussein died in December 1826 and was succeeded by
Umar bin Haydar.
References
Literature
* Akhmad Donish, Puteshestviye iz Bukhary Peterburg. Dushanbe, 1960.
* Holzwarth, Wolfgang. "Community Elders and State Agents: Īlbēgīs in the Emirate of Bukhara around 1900." Eurasian Studies (2011).
* Bregel, Y. (2009). The new Uzbek states: Bukhara, Khiva and Khoqand: C. 1750–1886. In N. Di Cosmo, A. Frank, & P. Golden (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age (pp. 392-411). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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Emirs of Bukhara
1826 deaths
19th-century monarchs in Asia
People from Bukhara
1797 births