Abū'l-Fath Tauke Mūhammad bin Salqām-Jahangīr Khan ( kk, Әбілфат Тәуке Мұхаммед бин Салқам-Жаһанғыр хан, ,
romanized: ''Äbılfat Täuke Mūhammed bin Salqam-Jahanğyr han'') (1635 – 1715, r. 1680 – 1715) ruled as a
Kazakh khan of the
Kazakh Khanate.
In 1652 after the death of his father
Jahangir Khan
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, the ruler of
Jungars
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Erdeni Batyr had dramatically increased his military pressure on the
Kazakh Khanate in an attempt to conquer it. Eventually he died in 1670. Kaldan Boshakty replaced him (1670–1699, in some sources 1670–1697), who was later succeeded by Seban Rabtan (1699–1729). All through these invasions, a weak Kazakh ruler named Bahadur Khan had taken the throne. He was quickly deposed by the Kazakhs, allowing Tauke Muhammad to take the Kazakh throne.
The hardest time for the Kazakhs started from 1698. When the Kazakhs divided their khanate into Juzes, maintaining unity became a complicated task. Tauke Muhammad, who remained the khan of all three Juzes, managed to keep the unity of Kazakhs, earning him the honorific title "''Shah-i-Turan''" (
Persian
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for "King of
Turan
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") like his father before him.
In 1692 Tauke Muhammad connected with
Peter I of Russia. Eventually, the Russian Empire lowered the trade taxes (also known as ''bazh'' tax).
In 1710 by uniting 3 juzes in the place Kuntobe (near the city of
Tashkent
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), Tauke Muhammad fought Jungars in the place named Augyr and gained a victory.
With Tauke Khan's death in 1715, the three "jüzes" of the Kazakh Khanate — the Great jüz, the Middle jüz and the Little jüz — were no longer able to pursue a unified political policy.
Abu'l Khair Khan of the Little jüz was nominally the senior khan of the entire Kazakh Khanate, but in practice each jüz was ruled independently by its own khan.
[Viatkin, 154.]
Tauke Khan is also known for refining the Kazakh code of laws, and reissuing it under the title
"Жеті Жарғі" (transliterated: "Jetı Jarğı" — "Seven Charters").
See also
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List of kazakh khans
Starting from the formation of the Kazakhs in the mid-15th century, the Kazakhs khans led both the unified Kazakh Khanate and later the three main Kazakh divisions. Khan is a title for a ruler used by nomadic and semi-nomadic groups throughout Cen ...
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Kazakh Khanate
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History of Kazakhstan
References
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*{{cite book, last1=Viatkin, first1=M. P., title=Batyr Srym, date=1947, publisher=Akademiia Nauk SSSR, location=Moscow
*Kazakh Khanate is described in historical texts such as the Tarikh-i-Rashidi (1541–1545) by Muhammad Haidar Dughlat, and Zhamigi-at-Tavarikh (1598–1599) by Kadyrgali Kosynuli Zhalayir.
Kazakh khans
Kazakhstani Muslims