Murad Beg Khan was briefly 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 ...
after he killed
Shir Ali Khan. After requesting the assistance of the
Emirate of Bukhara
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 ...
, Musulmonqul travelled to
Namangan and gave his daughter as a "gift" to
Khudayar before brought the young Khudayar to Kokand, where he was declared Khan with Musulmonqul as
regent
A regent (from Latin : ruling, governing) is a person appointed to govern a state '' pro tempore'' (Latin: 'for the time being') because the monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge the powers and duties of the monarchy ...
. Murad had been khan for only eleven days before he was killed and Khudayar put in power.
[ OʻzME. Birinchi jild. Toshkent, 2000-yil]
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{{Khans of Kokand
1812 births
1845 deaths
19th-century monarchs in Asia
19th-century murdered monarchs
Khans of Kokand
People from Kokand