Mamash Khan

{{Infobox royalty

| name = Muhammed (Mamash) Khan
{{lang|kk|محمد (ماماش) خان}}
{{lang|kk|Мұхаммед (Мамаш) хан}}

| title = Khan
Khanzada
Sultan

| image =

| caption =

| succession = 5th Khan of the Kazakh Khanate

| reign = 1521–1523

| coronation = 1521

| birth_date = 1480

| birth_place = Kazakh Khanate

| death_date = {{death year and age|1523|1480}}

| death_place = Kazakh Khanate

| burial_date =

| burial_place =

| predecessor = Qasim Khan

| successor = Tahir Khan

| spouse = Ibadat Begum

| issue =

| royal house = House of Borjigin

| dynasty = Tore, House of Urus Khan

| father = Qasim Khan

| mother = Khanyk Sultan Begum

| full name = {{lang|kk|محمد بن قاسم خان}}

Mūhammed bin Qasım Khan

| religion = Sunni Islam

}}

Mūhammed bin Qasim Khan ({{Langx|kk|محمد بن قاسم خان, Мұхаммед бин Қасым хан}}, romanized: Mūhammed bin Qasım Han), also known by his diminutive nickname Mamash Khan, was the oldest son of Qasim Khan. Following the death of his father, he became the fifth Khan of the Kazakh Khanate and ruled from about 1521 to 1523.{{Cite web|url=http://old.unesco.kz/heritagenet/kz/content/history/portret/kasymhan.htm|title=Касым хан (годы правления 1511-1518) |last=Шоманов|first=Аскар |date=3 May 2002 |website=old.unesco.kz |language=ru|trans-title=Kasym Khan (years of reign 1511-1518) |access-date=2018-06-12}}{{cite book|author1=Didar Kassymova|author2=Zhanat Kundakbayeva|author3=Ustina Markus|title=Historical Dictionary of Kazakhstan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BbRsMq03dh0C&pg=PA301|date=18 May 2012|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7983-6|page=301}}

Biography

Khanzada Muhammed was born to Qasim Khan and his wife Khanyk-Sultan Begum. He was the oldest of three sons born to Qasim, along with his brothers Haqnazar Khan and Abu'l Khair Sultan. Muhammed earned the nickname "Mamash" in his teenage years and went by that name for the rest of his life.

Muhammed (referred to as Mamash hereafter) became the fifth Khan of the Kazakh Khanate after the death of his father Kasym Khan in the winter of 1521.{{Cite web |url=http://tarih.ru/2008/09/19/kazakhskoe-khanstvo-pri-kasym-khane..html |title=Казахское ханство при Касым хане. » История Казахстана |access-date=2018-04-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110404232628/http://tarih.ru/2008/09/19/kazakhskoe-khanstvo-pri-kasym-khane..html |archive-date=2011-04-04 |url-status=dead }} Under his rule, Mamash could not resist against the Nogai Horde, which captured the territory to the Turgai River. The Kazakh Khanate was greatly reduced for a brief period, but Mamash was able to recapture the western lands as far as modern-day Atyrau from the Nogai Horde. Nevertheless, he still faced competition for his territory from the Russians up north, where the Tsars of Russia considered the lands as theirs to take. Ivan the Terrible repeatedly sent his ambassadors to Mamash to obtain a peaceful submission. While it did end in battle, the Kazakhs were still able to defend their northern borders from the Russians.

The reign of Mamash Khan was short-lived; rivalry between the nobles weakened the state. In 1523, Mamash died in an internal conflict due to suffocation and injuries caused by weapons.{{Cite web|url=http://rudocs.exdat.com/docs/index-23071.html?page=5|title=Бурундук (Бурындык, Мурындык) - 1906-1Ш посвящается|last=|first=|date=|website=rudocs.exdat.com|language=ru|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-04-13}} Khanzada Tahir, the son of Adik Sultan and nephew of Kasym Khan, ascended the throne after him.{{cite web|url=http://e-history.kz/en/biography/view/97|title=Mamash Khan · Prominent figures · "Kazakhstan History" portal|website=e-history.kz}}

References

{{succession box | before = Kasym Khan | title = Khan of the Kazakhs | years = 1521–1523 | after = Taiyr Khan}}

Category:Kazakh khans

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Category:Year of death missing