Abū al-Ghāzī Bahādur Khān, was the son of ʿArab Muḥammad Khān b. Ḥājj Muḥammad Khān or Ḥājim Khān (1014–Ramaḍān 1074/1605–March 1664), a historian and one of the rulers of the Uzbek Shaybānid dynasty in Kh^wārazm. The sole reliable source on his life is a book called Shajara-yi Turk of which he himself is the author. He was born in Urgench and died in Khīwa (Abū al-Ghazī, 291, 334; see below). His father thought the victory over the invading Russian Cossacks in Urgench forty days after his birth was a good omen, and therefore named him Abū al…