Mirza Abu Bakr Dughlat (also Ababakar or Abubekr; died shortly after AH Rajab 920 / Aug-Sept 1514; exact date uncertain; year 1516 indicated by some authors is wrong) was a ruler in South-Western part of present

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...

of China, an ''amir'' of the

Dughlat The Dughlat clan ( kk, Дулат, Dulat, lit=ruthless or fierce warrior; Mongolian: '' Dolood/sevens, Doloo/seven; Middle Mongolian: Doluga, Dolugad''; Dulğat; ) was a Mongol (later Turko-Mongol) clan that served the Chagatai khans as hereditary ...

tribe. In the middle of the fifteenth century, in 1465, he founded in Western

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a kingdom based at Yarkand, a fragment of

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. It included

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and Kashgar; he took Kashgar in 1480. He was the son of Saniz Mirza, son of

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, the latter was ''amir'' in Kashgar who regained control of the city by Dughlat dynasty, having expelled

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local ruler in 1435. He successfully resisted the attacks of

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, against whom he had rebelled in 1479–80.

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, son of Yunus Khan, took Kashgar from him in 1499, but could not hold it. Subsequent to retaking Kashgar, Abu Bakr took his forces and successfully conquered number of neighboring areas, including modern day

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, Balur (around Gilgit),

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, and other fragments of Moghulistan. In 1514,

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took Kashgar from him. In danger of losing Yarkand and Khotan as well, he gave the government to his eldest son Jahangir Mirza, and attempted to flee to

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, ''The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia'' (1970 translation), p. 497. He was intercepted and killed by pursuers sent by Sultan Said Khan north of Shahidulla.{{cite book, last=Bellew, first=Henry Walter, title=The history of Káshgharia, url=https://archive.org/details/HistoryOfKshgharia/page/n65, year=1875, page=62, quote= a'idtook possession of the city at end of Rajab 920H ... Ababakar fled before them from Khotan to Karangutagh. ... fled towards Tibet. ... He was intercepted, seized, and killed by a party of his many pursuers in the Karakash valley, where a mean tomb on the river bank, two stages from Shahidulla Khoja, now marks the site of his grave. His deeds are recorded in the ''

Tarikh-i-Rashidi Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat Beg (Persian: میرزا محمد حیدر دولت بیگ c. 1499/1500 – 1551) was a Chagatai Turco-Mongol military general, governor of Kashmir, and a historical writer, He was a Turkic speaking Dughlat prince ...

'', which was written by his nephew, Mirza Muhammad Haidar.

Family

;Consorts Abu Bakr had two wives: *Husn Nigar Khanum, daughter of

Esen Buqa II Esen Buqa II (died 1462) was Khan of Moghulistan from 1429 until his death. He was the younger son of Uwais Khan. When Uwais Khan was killed in 1428 the Moghuls were thrown into a state of confusion. Some of them supported Esen Buqa, while oth ...

; *Khanzada Begum, daughter of Sultan Mahmud Mirza; ;Sons Abu Bakr had three sons; * Jahangir Mirza - with Husn Nigar Khanum; *Turangir Mirza - with Khanzada Begum; *Bustangir Mirza - with Khanzada Begum;

References

*Demetrius Charles Boulger, ''The Life of Yakoob Beg, Athalik Ghazi and Badaulet, Ameer of Kashgar'', pp. 34–6.

Notes

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