Muzaffar bin Nasrullah was the Uzbek ruler (

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

Bukhara Bukhara (Uzbek language, Uzbek: /, ; tg, Бухоро, ) is the List of cities in Uzbekistan, seventh-largest city in Uzbekistan, with a population of 280,187 , and the capital of Bukhara Region. People have inhabited the region around Bukhara ...

from 1860 to 1885. His father was emir Nasrullah. Emir Nasrullah died in 1860 and was succeeded by his son Muzaffar. Having entrenched himself on the throne, Emir Muzaffar removed the senior officials appointed by his father from their posts, confiscated their property and appointed his loyal people in their places. However,

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became independent. With great difficulty, he suppressed the separatist movement in Gissar, Kulyab and Baldzhuan. During the reign of Muzaffar, a Persian by origin, kushbegi (prime minister) Muhammad-biy (1811-1889), enjoyed great influence. Having unlimited influence over Muzaffar, he was able to bring other members of his family to higher positions. The beginning of the reign of Emir Muzaffar was accompanied by some successes in foreign policy. With the support of Bukhara, Khudoyarkhan came to power in Kokand. However, the internal weakness of the Bukhara Emirate soon came to light. Since 1868, the

Bukhara 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 lan ...

was subordinated to Tsarist Russia. Despite repeated attempts to change military tactics and the support of Turkish military specialists, the Bukhara troops were defeated three times by the troops of the Russian Empire under the leadership of K.P. von Kaufman in the battles of Irdzhar (1866), Chupan-ata (1868), Zerabulak (1868). From July 1868 until his death in 1885, the emir maintained peaceful relations with the

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. A number of Russian embassies were sent to him. The reception ceremonies for the ambassadors were carried out in the Uzbek language. Emir Muzaffar himself honored the work of the poet

Alisher Navoi 'Ali-Shir Nava'i (9 February 1441 – 3 January 1501), also known as Nizām-al-Din ʿAli-Shir Herawī ( Chagatai: نظام الدین علی شیر نوایی, fa, نظام‌الدین علی‌شیر نوایی) was a Timurid poet, writer ...

and in 1872 presented the manuscript of Navoi's Divan to the British Queen Victoria. JOHN SEYLLER, A MUGHAL MANUSCRIPT OF THE «DIWAN» OF NAWA’I in Artibus Asiae, Vol. 71, No. 2 (2011), pp. 325—334 Emir Muzaffar died in 1885 and was buried in Bukhara. His heir and fifth son Abdulahad came to power.

References

Literature

* Akhmad Donish, Puteshestviye iz Bukhary Peterburg. Dushanbe, 1960. * 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 {{s-end Emirs of Bukhara 1885 deaths 19th-century monarchs in Asia People from Bukhara 1819 births