Tini Beg

{{Infobox monarch

| name = Tini Beg

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| image = Facial Chronicle - b.07, p.461 - Tinibek enthroned.jpg

| caption =Tinibeg as depicted in the Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible (16th century)

| succession =Khan of the Golden Horde
Western Half (Blue Horde)

| reign1 =1341–1342

| predecessor1 =Öz Beg Khan

| successor1 =Jani Beg

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| issue =

| royal house = Borjigin

| dynasty = Golden Horde

| father = Öz Beg Khan

| mother = Taydula Khatun

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| death_date = 1342

| death_place = Sarai

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| religion = Islam

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Tini Beg (Turki/Kypchak: تینی بک; died 1342), also known as Dinibeg, was Khan of the Golden Horde from 1341 to 1342.

Biography

He was born to Öz Beg Khan and his principal wife Taydula Khatun.Gibb, H. A. R. (trans.), The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa A. D. 1325-1354. Vol. 2. Cambridge, 1962: 486; Howorth, H. H., History of the Mongols from the 9th to the 19th Century. Part II.1. London, 1880: 172 speculates that Tini Beg's mother's name was Sheritumgha Khatun, but this is contradicted by the primary sources. He was appointed as governor of White Horde in c. 1328. Muslim sources such as Ibn Battuta claimed that he was the most favored son of Öz Beg and was designated his heir.{{Cite book|last=Gibb|first=H. A. R.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dS4rDwAAQBAJ|title=The Travels of Ibn Battuta, A.D. 1325-1354: Volume II|date=2017-07-05|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-351-53992-0|location=490|pages=|language=en}} He became the expected heir after his elder brother Timur Beg's death in 1330.Seleznëv, J. V., Èlita Zolotoj Ordy, Kazan', 2009: 74. The poet Qutb translated Nizami's "Khosrow and Shirin" for Tini Beg and his wife Malika Khatun. During his reign, Volhynia was lost to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Tini Beg was away, fighting against Chagatai raiders on the eastern border or White Horde of Jochid ulus, when his father Öz Beg died in 1341. Tini Beg's younger brother Jani Beg served as regent, aided by their mother Taydula Khatun. In obscure circumstances, Jani Beg had another younger son of Öz Beg, Khiḍr Beg, killed.Enerelt Enkhbold, "[https://caj.harrassowitz-library.com/article/CAJ/2024/1-2/13 Religious Services and Rational Choices: Two Cases of Limited Tax Exemption in the Mongol Empire]," Central Asiatic Journal 67, no. 1-2 (2024): 195-219, https://doi.org/10.13173/CAJ.67.1-2.195. When Taydula heard that Tini Beg was on his way back to the court in 1342, fearing for Jani Beg, she incited the emirs to kill Tini Beg, at Saray-Jük.Enerelt Enkhbold, "[https://caj.harrassowitz-library.com/article/CAJ/2024/1-2/13 Religious Services and Rational Choices: Two Cases of Limited Tax Exemption in the Mongol Empire]," Central Asiatic Journal 67, no. 1-2 (2024): 195-219, https://doi.org/10.13173/CAJ.67.1-2.195. Jani Beg succeeded as khan.Gibb, H. A. R. (trans.), The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa A. D. 1325-1354. Vol. 2. Cambridge, 1962: 490; Seleznëv, J. V., Èlita Zolotoj Ordy, Kazan', 2009: 69, 74.

= Legacy =

Tini Beg was remembered as a more suitable man for the throne by Ibn Battuta. He was considered pro-Christian{{Cite book|last=Spuler|first=Bertold|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q8oUAAAAIAAJ|title=The Muslim world: a historical survey|date=1969|publisher=Brill Archive|isbn=|location=|pages=54|language=en}} and received some letters from Pope Benedict XII, who encouraged him to convert to Christianity.{{Cite journal|last=Ryan|first=James D.|date=1998|title=Christian Wives of Mongol Khans: Tartar Queens and Missionary Expectations in Asia|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25183572|journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society|volume=8|issue=3|pages=411–421|doi=10.1017/S1356186300010506 |jstor=25183572 |s2cid=162220753 |issn=1356-1863|url-access=subscription}}

= Marriage =

He had at least two wives:

Jamila Malika Khatun{{Cite web|title=HÜSREV ü ŞÎRÎN - TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi|url=https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/husrev-u-sirin--kutb|access-date=2021-01-10|website=TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi|language=tr}}
Anushirwan Khatun (m. 1330/1) — daughter of Shaikh Ali Jalayir, brother of Hasan Buzurg{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=http://archive.org/details/HistoryOfShaikhUwais|title=Ta'rīkh-i Shaikh Uwais : (History of Shaikh Uais) : Am important source for the history of Adharbaijān in the fourteenth century|publisher=|year=|isbn=|location=|pages=58|language=English}}