Tuqa-Timur

Tuqa-Temür (also Toqa-Temür and Togai-Temür) was the thirteenth and perhaps youngest son of Jochi, the eldest son of Genghis Khan. He was a younger brother of Batu Khan and Berke Khan, the rulers of what came to be known as the Golden Horde.

Career
As Jochi's apparently youngest son of standing, Tuqa-Timur was perhaps deemed too young to attend the qurultai for the proclamation and enthronement of the great khan Ögedei in 1229. Instead, Tuqa-Timur remained behind in his father's ulus, apparently governing it during the absence of his older brothers at the assembly. When Batu Khan returned, Tuqa-Timur organized a three-day feast in his honor.

Tuqa-Timur subsequently received an ulus of his own from Batu, somewhere within the Left Wing (i.e., eastern portion) of Batu's possessions, that is to say east of the Ural Mountains and Ural River, and perhaps under the intermediate authority of another brother, Orda. Tuqa-Timur participated in Batu's Western Campaign, but does not seem to have played a very distinguished role in it; he is also credited with a leading role in campaigns against the Bashkirs and Alans. He was among the Jochid princes participating in the qurultai at which the great khan Güyük was formally proclaimed and enthroned, in 1246, Batu having refused to attend. After Batu's quriltai that resulted in the proclamation of Möngke as great khan in 1250, Berke and Tuqa-Timur escorted Möngke to Mongolia with an army, and were generously rewarded by the new great khan for their support. Tuqa-Timur appears to have survived Batu and to have died some time after Berke's accession as khan of the Golden Horde in 1257; it is presumed that he was already dead by 1267, when his son Urung-Timur received lands from the new khan Mengu-Timur. The Mongol prince ("tsarevich") Toktemir, who attacked Tver' in Russia in 1294/1295, is a distinct individual, bearing the same or similar name.

Following the example of his older brother Berke, Tuqa-Timur converted to Islam, sometime after Berke's conversion in 1251–1252. Unlike his brothers Batu, Orda, and Shiban, Tuqa-Timur does not appear to have headed an autonomous and lasting territorial polity, something brought up as a negative comparison in disputes between his descendants and those of Shiban in the late 14th century; the Shibanids argued that this made the Tuka-Timurids substantially inferior. Some of Tuqa-Timur's descendants appear to have remained in the Left Wing (eastern portion) of the Golden Horde, while others were settled in the Right Wing (western portion) when Khan Mengu-Timur gave the Crimea to Tuqa-Timur's son Urung-Timur.

Descendants
Apart from his involvement in the affairs of the Golden Horde and his actions as representative of his older brothers, Tuqa-Timur is important as the progenitor of some of the most prolific and historically significant lines of Jochid and Chinggisid descent. From the 1360s, Tuqa-Timur's descendants vied with those of his brother Shiban for possession of the throne of the Golden Horde, starting with the probable Tuqa-Timurid Ordu Malik, who overthrew the Shibanid Timur Khwaja in 1361. A Crimean branch of Tuqa-Timur's descendants furnished the beglerbeg Mamai with a succession of three puppet khans in 1361–1380. Several families descended from Tuqa-Timur ensconced themselves in the former Ulus of Jochi's eldest son Orda in the east, under Qara Noqai in 1360, then Urus Khan in 1369, and finally Tokhtamysh in 1379. The descendants of Urus and Tokhtamysh subsequently disputed possession of the Golden Horde mostly among themselves. Among the successor states of the Golden Horde, the khanates of Qasim, Kazan, Astrakhan, and the Crimean Khanate were all founded by princes descended from Tuqa-Timur. This was also the case with the Kazakh Khanate and, after 1599, the Khanate of Bukhara in Central Asia.

The following is a simplified line of descent to these rulers; generations start with Tuqa-Timur (as 0). For the sake of accuracy and consistency, the names, which are found in a bewildering and inconsistent number of variations, are given below in the Perso-Arabic orthography of the major genealogical sources, the Muʿizz al-ansāb and the Tawārīḫ-i guzīdah-i nuṣrat-nāmah, in the standard scholarly transcription used in English-language scholarship (e.g., Bosworth 1996).

0 Tūqā-Tīmūr (d. after 1257)
 * 1 Bāy-Timur
 * 2 Tūqānchar
 * 3 Sāsī
 * 4 Qarā Nūqāy of the Ulus of Orda 1360–1363
 * 4 Būchqāq
 * 5 Tughluq-Tīmūr of the Ulus of Orda 1363–?
 * 4 Qutluq-Khwāja of the Ulus of Orda 1369
 * 3 Būrqūlāq
 * 4 Mubārak-Khwāja of the Ulus of Orda ?–1369
 * 1 Bāyān
 * 2 Dānishmand
 * 3 Īl-Tūtār
 * 4 Ūrdū-Malik of the Golden Horde 1361
 * 3 Beg-Tūt
 * 4 Beg-Ṣūfī = ? Beg-Ṣūfī claimant in Crimea 1419–1421 (identification disputed)
 * 5 Sayyid-Aḥmad II claimant in Crimea 1432–1437, Podolia 1433–1452 (d. 1465?) (identification disputed)
 * 1 Ūrung-Tīmūr (Ūz-Tīmūr, Urungbāsh)
 * 2 Achiq
 * 3 Tāqtaq
 * 4 Tīmūr-Khwāja
 * 5 Bādiq
 * 6 Urūs of the Ulus of Orda 1369–1377, of the Golden Horde 1373, 1374–1375
 * 7 Qutlū-Būqā of the Ulus of Orda 1374–1375
 * 7 Tūqtāqiyā of the Ulus of Orda 1377
 * 8 Beg-Pūlād claimant in Crimea 1391–1392
 * 8 Anīka-Pūlād
 * 9 Aḥmad Girāy of the Kazakhs 1470–?
 * 10 Burundūq of the Kazakhs ?–1513
 * 7 Tīmūr-Malik of the Ulus of Orda 1377–1379
 * 7 Qūyūrchuq of the Golden Horde 1395–1397
 * 8 Barāq of the Ulus of Orda 1419–1421; of Sibir 1421–1426; of the Golden Horde 1423–1428
 * 9 Jānī-Beg Abū-Saʿīd of the Kazakhs 1470–after 1490 (the listing of ruling descendants in his line is selective and incomplete)
 * 10 Qāsim of the Kazakhs 1513–1521
 * 11 Ḥaqq-Nazar of the Kazakhs 1559–1580
 * 12 Dīn-Muḥammad (Tīnīm) of Tashkent (d. 1603)
 * 11 Muḥammad (Mamāsh) of the Kazakhs 1521–1522
 * 10 Adīk
 * 11 Ṭāhir of the Kazakhs 1522–1532
 * 11 Būydāsh of the Kazakhs 1532–1559
 * 11 Khwāja-Muḥammad (Qujāsh) Kazakh claimant 1535
 * 10 Usāq
 * 11 Pūlād Kazakh claimant 1537
 * 10 Ūsāk
 * 11 Būlākāy
 * 12 Bahādur of the Kazakhs 1652–1680
 * 12 Aychuwāq
 * 13 Irīsh
 * 14 Khwāja-Sulṭān
 * 15 Abu'l-Khayr Muḥammad of the Kazakh Lesser Jüz 1718–1748
 * 16 Nūr-ʿAlī of the Kazakh Lesser Jüz 1748–1786 (d. 1790)
 * 17 Pīr-ʿAlī claimant 1770–1805
 * 17 Īsh-Muḥammad (Īshīm) of the Kazakh Lesser Jüz 1794–1797
 * 17 Būkāy of the Kazakh Inner Jüz 1801–1815
 * 18 Jahāngīr Girāy of the Kazakh Inner Jüz 1823–1845
 * 19 Ṣāḥib Girāy of the Kazakh Inner Jüz 1845–1847
 * 17 Shighāy of the Kazakh Inner Jüz 1815–1823
 * 16 Yār-Muḥammad of the Kazakh Lesser Jüz 1786–1790
 * 16 Īr-ʿAlī of the Kazakh Lesser Jüz 1791–1794
 * 16 Aychuwāq of the Kazakh Lesser Jüz 1797–1805 (d. 1810)
 * 17 Jān-Tūra of the Kazakh Lesser Jüz 1805–1809
 * 18 Shīr-Ghāzī of the Kazakh Lesser Jüz 1809–1824 (d. 1845)
 * 10 Jādik
 * 11 Tūgum Kazakh claimant 1552–1556
 * 11 Shighāy of the Kazakhs 1580–1582
 * 12 Andān-Sulṭān
 * 13 Abūlī of Tashkent (d. 1650)
 * 13 Uraz-Muḥammad of Kasimov 1600–1611
 * 13 Kīchīk-Sulṭān
 * 14 Būkāy
 * 15 Khudāmanda
 * 16 Tursūn I of Tashkent (d.1717)
 * 17 Kīchīk-Sulṭān of the Kazakh Middle Jüz 1748–1750
 * 17 Sulṭān-Barāq of the Kazakh Middle Jüz 1748–1750
 * 12 Tawakkul (Tawka) of the Kazakhs 1582–1598
 * 12 Amān-Būlān
 * 13 Bahādur
 * 14 Tursūn II of Tashkent (d. 1720)
 * 15 Yulbārs of Tashkent and the Kazakh Greater Jüz 1720–1740
 * 12 Īsh-Muḥammad (Īshīm) of the Kazakhs 1598–1613, 1627–1628
 * 13 Khudābanda
 * 14 Sīrdāq
 * 15 Khusraw
 * 16 Qayʾip of the Kazakhs 1715–1718
 * 13 Jānī-Beg of the Kazakhs 1628–1644
 * 13 Jahāngīr of the Kazakhs 1644–1652
 * 14 Tawakkul-Muḥammad (Tawka) of the Kazakhs 1652–1715
 * 15 Pūlād of the Kazakhs 1718-1729
 * 16 Abu'l-Muḥammad of the Kazakh Middle Jüz by 1737–1748, 1750–1771
 * 15 Shāh-Muḥammad (Sameke) of the Kazakh Middle Jüz 1719–after 1734 (1737?)
 * 14 Walī
 * 15 Abūlī
 * 16 Jahāngīr of Tashkent (d. after 1717)
 * 16 Walī
 * 17 Abu'l-Manṣūr Abūlī (Ablai) of the Kazakh Middle Jüz 1771–1781
 * 18 ʿAbdallāh of the Kazakh Middle Jüz 1781–1782
 * 18 Walī of the Kazakh Middle Jüz 1782–1821
 * 19 ʿUbaydallāh of the Kazakh Middle Jüz 1821–1824 (d. 1852)
 * 18 Qāsim
 * 19 Kanāshīrīn (Kenesary Kasymov) (died 1847)
 * 2 Sārīcha
 * 3 Kuyunchak
 * 4 Qutluq-Khwāja
 * 5 Tuy-Khwāja
 * 6 Tūqtāmīš of the Ulus of Orda 1379–, of the Golden Horde 1380–1395, 1398, of Sibir 1399–1406
 * 7 Jalāl ad-Dīn of the Golden Horde 1411–1412
 * 8 ? Beg-Ṣūfī claimant in Crimea 1419–1421 (identification disputed)
 * 9 Sayyid-Aḥmad II claimant in Crimea 1432–1437, Podolia 1433–1452 (d. 1465?) (identification disputed)
 * 7 Karīm-Bīrdī of the Golden Horde 1409, 1412–1413, 1414–1415 (d. 1417?)
 * 8 Sayyid-Aḥmad I of the Golden Horde 1416 (disputed identification)
 * 7 Kibak of the Golden Horde 1413–1414
 * 7 Jabbār-Bīrdī of the Golden Horde 1414–1415, 1416–1417
 * 7 Qādir-Bīrdī of the Golden Horde 1419–1420
 * 7 Kūchuk-Muḥammad claimant in Crimea 1421
 * 4 Tūlāk-Tīmūr
 * 5 Janis
 * 6 Tāsh-Tīmūr claimant in Crimea 1395–1396 (d. after 1404)
 * 7 Ghiyāth ad-Dīn I of the Golden Horde 1416
 * 8 Ḥājjī Girāy I of Crimea 1433–1434, 1443–1444, 1449–1466
 * 9 Ḥaydar Girāy of Crimea 1456
 * 9 Nūr-Dawlat Girāy of Crimea 1466–1467, 1474–1475, 1476–1478; of Kasimov 1486–1490 (d. 1503)
 * 10 Satīlghan Girāy of Kasimov 1490–1506
 * 10 Jānay Girāy of Kasimov 1506–1512
 * 9 Manglī Girāy I of Crimea 1467–1474, 1475–1476, 1478–1514
 * 10 Muḥammad Girāy I of Crimea 1514–1523
 * 11 Ghāzī Girāy I of Crimea 1523–1524
 * 11 Bahādur Girāy of Astrakhan 1523
 * 10 Saʿādat Girāy I of Crimea 1524–1532 (d. 1539)
 * 10 Islām Girāy I of Astrakhan 1531–1532; of Crimea 1532 (d. 1537)
 * 10 Ṣāḥib Girāy I of Kazan 1521–1524; of Crimea 1532–1551
 * 10 Maḥmūd Girāy
 * 11 Ṣafāʾ Girāy of Kazan 1524–1531, 1533–1546, 1546–1549
 * 12 Ūtamīš Girāy of Kazan 1549–1551
 * 10 Mubārak Girāy
 * 11 Dawlat Girāy I of Crimea 1551–1577
 * 12 Muḥammad Girāy II of Crimea 1577–1584
 * 13 Saʿādat Girāy II of Crimea 1584 (d. 1587)
 * 14 Muḥammad Girāy III of Crimea 1610, 1623–1624, 1624–1627 (d. 1629)
 * 12 Islām Girāy II of Crimea 1584, 1584–1588
 * 12 Ghāzī Girāy II of Crimea 1588–1596, 1596–1608
 * 13 Tūqtāmīš Girāy of Crimea 1608
 * 13 ʿInāyat Girāy of Crimea 1635–1637
 * 12 Fatḥ Girāy I of Crimea 1596
 * 13 Dawlat Girāy
 * 14 ʿĀdil Girāy of Crimea 1666–1671
 * 12 Salāmat Girāy I of Crimea 1608–1610
 * 13 Bahādur Girāy I of Crimea 1637–1641
 * 14 Salīm Girāy I of Crimea 1671–1678, 1684–1691, 1692–1699, 1702–1704
 * 15 Dawlat Girāy II of Crimea 1688–1702, 1708–1713 (d. 1725)
 * 16 Fatḥ Girāy II of Crimea 1736–1737 (d. 1746)
 * 17 Salīm Girāy III of Crimea 1764–1767, 1770–1771 (d. 1786)
 * 16 Arslān Girāy of Crimea 1748–1756, 1767
 * 17 Dawlat Girāy IV of Crimea 1769–1770, 1775–1777 (d. 1781)
 * 18 Salīm Girāy
 * 19 Salīm Girāy
 * 20 Azamat Girāy
 * 21 Qādir Girāy (d. 1953)
 * 22 Azamat Girāy (d. 2001)
 * 23 Qādir Girāy (b. 1961)
 * 17 Shāhbāz Girāy of Bujaq 1787–1789 (d. 1793)
 * 16 Qīrīm Girāy of Crimea 1758–1764, 1768–1769
 * 17 Bakht Girāy of Bujaq 1789–1792 (d. 1801)
 * 16 Aḥmad Girāy
 * 17 Ṣāḥib Girāy II of Crimea 1772–1775 (d. 1807)
 * 17 Shāhīn Girāy of Crimea 1777–1782, 1783 (d. 1787)
 * 17 Bahādur Girāy II of Crimea 1782–1783; of Bujaq 1783–1787 (d. 1792)
 * 15 Ghāzī Girāy III of Crimea 1704–1707 (d. 1708)
 * 15 Qaplān Girāy I of Crimea 1707–1708, 1713–1716, 1730–1736 (d. 1738)
 * 16 Salīm Girāy II of Crimea 1743–1748
 * 17 Qaplān Girāy II of Crimea 1770 (d. 1771)
 * 15 Saʿādat Girāy IV of Crimea 1717–1724 (d. 1732)
 * 16 Ḥalīm Girāy of Crimea 1756–1758 (d. 1759)
 * 15 Manglī Girāy II of Crimea 1724–1730, 1737–1739
 * 15 Salāmat Girāy II of Crimea 1740–1743 (d. 1751)
 * 16 Maqṣūd Girāy of Crimea 1767–1768, 1771–1772 (d. 1781)
 * 13 Muḥammad Girāy IV of Crimea 1641–1644, 1654–1666
 * 13 Islām Girāy III of Crimea 1644–1654
 * 13 Mubārak Girāy
 * 14 Murād Girāy of Crimea 1678–1683
 * 13 Qīrīm Girāy
 * 14 Ḥājjī Girāy II of Crimea 1683–1684
 * 14 Saʿādat Girāy III of Crimea 1691
 * 13 Ṣafāʾ Girāy
 * 14 Ṣafāʾ Girāy of Crimea 1691–1692
 * 13 ʿĀdil Girāy
 * 14 Dawlat Girāy III of Crimea 1716
 * 12 Mubārak Girāy
 * 13 Jānī-Beg Girāy of Crimea 1610–1623, 1624, 1627–1635
 * 7 ? Beg-Ṣūfī claimant in Crimea 1419–1421 (identification disputed)
 * 8 Sayyid-Aḥmad II claimant in Crimea 1432–1437, Podolia 1433–1452 (d. 1465?) (identification disputed)
 * 7 Dawlat-Bīrdī of the Golden Horde 1428; claimant in Crimea 1421-1428
 * 6 ʿAlī
 * 7 Khudādād of the Golden Horde 1422–1425
 * 6 Ḥasan
 * 7 Ulugh Muḥammad of the Golden Horde 1430–1437; of Kazan 1437–1446
 * 8 Maḥmūd (Maḥmūdāq) of Kazan 1446–1462
 * 9 Khalīl of Kazan 1462–1467
 * 9 Ibrāhīm of Kazan 1467–1479
 * 10 ʿAlī (Ilhām) of Kazan 1479–1484, 1485–1487 (d. 1490)
 * 10 Muḥammad-Amīn of Kazan 1484–1485, 1487–1495, 1502–1518
 * 10 ʿAbd al-Laṭīf of Kazan 1496–1502 (d. 1517)
 * 10 Gawhar Shād, female regent of Kazan 1531–1533
 * 8 Qāsim of Kasimov 1452–1469
 * 9 Dāniyār of Kasimov 1469–1486
 * 8 Yaʿqūb, possibly ruled in Kasimov 1469–1471
 * 1 Kay-Tīmūr
 * 2 Abāy
 * 3 Nūmqān
 * 4 Qutluq-Tīmūr = ? Qutluq-Tīmūr named as rival of ʿAbdallāh Khan in 1361 by Ibn Khaldun
 * 5 Tīmūr-Beg = ? Ūljāy-Tīmūr of the Golden Horde 1368 (d. 1369)
 * 6 Tīmūr-Qutluq of the Golden Horde 1397–1398, 1398–1399
 * 7 Pūlād of the Golden Horde 1406–1409, 1409–1410
 * 7 Tīmūr of the Golden Horde 1410–1412
 * 8 Kīchīk Muḥammad of the Golden Horde 1434–1459
 * 9 Maḥmūd of the Golden Horde 1459–1465; of Astrakhan 1465–1471
 * 10 Qāsim I of Astrakhan 1471–1481
 * 10 ʿAbd al-Karīm of the Golden Horde 1481–1491; of Astrakhan 1481–1485, 1491–1493, 1494–1514
 * 11 ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān of Astrakhan 1533–1537, 1539–1545
 * 10 Jānī-Beg of Astrakhan 1514–1521
 * 11 Ḥusayn of Astrakhan 1521–1523, 1523–1526
 * 9 Aḥmad of the Golden Horde 1459–1481
 * 10 Sayyid-Aḥmad III of the Golden Horde 1481–1491
 * 11 Qāsim II of Astrakhan 1528–1531, 1532
 * 12 Yādigār-Muḥammad of Kazan 1552 (d. 1565)
 * 10 Murtaḍā of the Golden Horde 1481–1494; of Astrakhan 1485–1491, 1493–1494 (d. 1499)
 * 11 Āq-Kibak of Astrakhan 1532–1533, 1545–1546, 1547–1550
 * 12 ʿAbdallāh
 * 13 Muṣṭafā-ʿAlī of Kasimov 1573–1583
 * 11 Bīrdī-Beg
 * 12 Yāmghurchī of Astrakhan 1546–1547, 1550–1554
 * 10 Shaykh-Aḥmad of the Golden Horde 1491–1502; of Astrakhan 1527–1528
 * 11 Shaykh-Ḥaydar (of Astrakhan in 1537–1541?)
 * 12 Darwīsh-ʿAlī of Astrakhan 1537–1539, 1554–1556 (d. after 1558)
 * 10 Sayyid-Maḥmūd of the Golden Horde 1491–1502
 * 10 Bahādur
 * 11 Beg-Pūlād
 * 12 Sāyin-Pūlād of Kasimov 1567–1573, Russian Tsar as Semën Bekbulatovič 1574–1576 (d. 1616)
 * 9 Bakhtiyār-Sulṭān
 * 10 Shaykh-Awliyār of Kasimov 1512–1516
 * 11 Shāh-ʿAlī of Kasimov 1516–1519, 1537–1567; of Kazan 1519–1521, 1546, 1551–1552
 * 11 Jān-ʿAlī of Kasimov 1519–1532; of Kazan 1531–1533 (d. 1535)
 * 9 Yaʿqūb of Khwarazm 1461–1462
 * 9 Jawāq (Chuwāq) of Khwarazm 1462
 * 10 Māngishlāq
 * 11 Yār-Muḥammad 1st Ashtarkhanid khan of Bukhara 1599–1600 (d. 1612)
 * 12 Jānī-Muḥammad (or Jānī-Beg) of Bukhara 1600–1603
 * 13 Bāqī-Muḥammad of Bukhara 1603–1606
 * 13 Walī-Muḥammad of Bukhara 1606–1611, 1611
 * 14 Rustam-Muḥammad rival at Balkh 1613 (d. after 1641)
 * 15 Muḥammad-Raḥīm
 * 16 ʿAbd-Allāh of Balkh 1711–1712
 * 17 Sanjar of Balkh 1712–1717
 * 15 Walī-Muḥammad
 * 16 Muḥammad of Balkh 1717–1720
 * 13 Dīn-Muḥammad
 * 14 Imām-Qulī of Bukhara 1611, 1611–1641 (d. 1642)
 * 14 Nadhr-Muḥammad of Bukhara 1641–1645 (d. 1651)
 * 15 ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bukhara 1645–1681 (d. 1684)
 * 15 Subḥān-Qulī of Bukhara 1681–1702
 * 16 ʿUbaydallāh I of Bukhara 1702–1711
 * 16 Abu'l-Fayḍ of Bukhara 1711–1747
 * 17 ʿAbd al-Muʾmin of Bukhara 1747–1750
 * 17 (Daughter of Abu'l-Fayḍ) married Muḥammad-Ḥājjī-Sulṭān
 * 18 Abu'l-Ghāzī of Bukhara 1758–1789; Khiva 1767–1768 (d. 1796)
 * 16 Iskandar of Balkh 1681–1683
 * 17 Muḥammad-Muqīm of Balkh 1697–1707
 * 16 Abu'l-Manṣūr of Balkh 1683
 * 16 Ṣaddīq-Muḥammad of Balkh 1683–1686
 * 12 Tursūn-Muḥammad
 * 13 Muḥammad-Ibrāhīm possibly the ruler of Balkh in 1601
 * 5 Qutlū-Beg
 * 6 Shādī-Beg of the Golden Horde 1399–1407
 * 7 Ghiyāth ad-Dīn II of the Golden Horde 1421, 1423–1426
 * 8 Muṣṭafā claimant at Astrakhan 1431–1433; in the Ulus of Orda 1440–1446; of Khwarazm 1447–1464
 * 3 Mīnkāsar
 * 4 ʿAbdallāh of the Golden Horde 1361–1370
 * 5 Muḥammad-Sulṭān of the Golden Horde 1370–1379
 * 4 Tughluq-Khwāja
 * 5 Tawakkul = Tūlāk of the Golden Horde 1379–1380
 * 4 Āqmīl
 * 5 Chekre khan of Sibir and Bolghar 1413, of the Golden Horde 1415–1416
 * 4 Mamkī
 * 5 Sayyid-Aḥmad I of the Golden Horde 1416 (disputed identification)
 * 5 Altī-Qurtuqā
 * 6 Darwīsh of the Golden Horde 1417–1419