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Abū Saʿīd Kūchkūnjī
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Abū Saʿīd Kūchkūnjī, Muẓaffar al-Dīn Abū Saʿīd b. Kūchkūnjī (Kūchūnjī, Kūcham), Khān b. Abī al-Khayr Khān b. Dawlat Shaykh Ūghlān (d. 939/1532), was an Uzbek ruler of the Shaybānid dynasty (Zambaur, 403; Uzunçarşılı, 3(2)/260). His father was descended from the Tīmūrid dynasty through Mīrzā Ulugh Beg Gūrkānī, his maternal grandfather (Ghaffārī, 208; Nawāʾī, 194). Abū Saʿīd, the fourth ruler of the dynasty, was a contemporary of the Ṣafawid Ṭahmāsb I (r. 930–984/1523–1576).

After his father's death in Samarqand (936/1530), Abū Saʿīd succeeded his father and was made …

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Dianat, Ali Akbar and Translated by Jawad Qasemi, “Abū Saʿīd Kūchkūnjī”, in: Encyclopaedia Islamica, Editors-in-Chief: Farhad Daftary. Consulted online on 02 October 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1875-9831_isla_SIM_0204>
First published online: 2015



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