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The arrangement was that Mahmûd should make a sally seemingly against him,
but really throw his force against Abdul Ali, whilst he himself, feigning retreat, would fall upon and plunder Ahmad's camp. The scheme was successfully carried out. Ahmad lost his camp and army, thousands in their flight being drowned in the Parag and Khyr rivers, and himself with difficulty escaped to the capital with only a few followers. Peace, was now made through the intervention of the Khoja Nasfruddfn, and the luxurious and haughty Ahmad, giving the betrothed Carakûz to Mahmûd in marriage, acknowledged him as an independent King.
After this Mahmûd gave his elder sister by a year, Khûb Nigh* Khanim, in marriage to Muhammad Husen, Gûrikan, the companion of his youth and the faithful friend and supporter of his father, ' and appointed him to the government of Oratappa. To Shahibeg Khan at the same time, in return for his services at Tashkand, he gave the government of Turkistan.
Muhammad Husen ruled at Oratappa for nine years, during which the following important political changes occurred in the neighbouring States. Farghana, after the death of .Umar Shekh, was contested by his two sons, Babur and Jahangfr. Bukhara and Samarcai d were contested by Bayncar and Sultan Ali, the sons of Sultan Mahmûd, the son of Abû Said, on the one hand, and by Shahibeg on the other. Khurasan flourished under the glorious and powerful rule of Sultan Husen Mirza. Whilst Irac, on the death of Yalthb, the son of Uzûn Hasan, passed into the hands of Shah Ismail, the founder of the new Saffavf dynasty. The Dasht Kapchak, meanwhile, was ruled by Biirûndûc, the Chief of the Jûji 4l48. And Shash=Tashkand continued the seat of Mahmûd, the son of Yûnus, who was the most noted Prince of Chaghtay descent. He first in 889H. =1484 A.D. settled the Moghol, who are also called Kara, Khitay, in cities, and established the rule of their Khans who now roamed full masters of Shish, which they held up to 908 H. = 1492 A.D.
The Moghol Khans were from father to son, Toghlûc Tymûr, who was set on the throne by Amir Bolajf, Khizr Khoja, Sher Ali, Wais, Yûnus, and Mahmûd. Their A
ministers or hereditary governors were from father to son, mfr Bolaji, who first. introduced Islam amongst the Moghol, Khudadad, Syad Ahmad, Syad Alf, Muhammad Hydar, and Muhammad Husen.
The settlement of Shahibeg at Turkistan gave offence to his enemies, the sons of Gaday and Jani Beg, who, at the instigation of the aggrieved Ahmad, collected the Kazzak and Uzbak, and waged war with Mahmûd. He was twice defeated by them, and then, his supporter deserting him, his court became the refuge of all sorts of adventurers and outlaws.
Umar Shekh at this time 899 H.=1493 A.D. was crushed to death by the fall of his house, and Ahmad at once set out from Samarcand to secure Andijan from annexation by the Moghol. The nobles, however, set Babur, the son of the deceased Chief, aged twelve years, on the throne, and called in the aid of Mahmûd for his support. Ahmad, in the interim, had advanced to Marghilan, and, falling sick there, concluded peace, and hurried back, but died on his way to the capital. On this Sultan Mahmûd from Hissar seized Samarcand. He died there after a rule of only six months, and then Bayncar Mirza succeeded. Mahmûd Khan, with the hope of restoring his declining authority, now hastened to contest its possession with him ; but, his rabble being routed at Miankal, he returned to Tashkand, and to stave off attack from himself, incited Shahibeg to invade the country. This the ambitious Uzbak immediately did, and ended by conquering Samarcand and Bukhara, an enterprise in which he was aided by Bâbur.
Shahibeg Khan now turned his arms against Mahmûd at Tâshkand, and he, long since reduced to a mere semblance of independence, hastily called to his aid his younger brother, Ahmad, who was ruling the nomads in Mogholistan. He arrived in time to oppose the Uzbak attack, but their conjoined forces were defeated, and both brothers were captured with most of their men. Shahibeg liberally set free
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