He was a son of Miran Shah and a grandson of Timur. [7][8], Several revolts were also put down by Miran Shah in subsequent years. He held on grimly and finally liquidated the Kurds in 1394 after fierce fighting. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper, sheet: 19 5/8 x 11 3/4 in. Official histories only state that Miran Shah made crude accusations against her that were later disproved. However, after facing accusations of destructive and hedonistic behaviour, the prince was later deposed from these roles by the emperor. [22], However, Miran Shah and Abu Bakr were forced to withdraw prior to being able to do this. Sultan Muhammad, son of Miran Shah, 1875-1900. [18] Instead, Miran Shah was deposed from his lands and assigned to Timur's own retinue, where he would remain for the next four years. Upon Timur's death in 1405 Khalil viewed himself as his successor. [19][20], The latter proclaimed himself emperor at Tashkent soon after his grandfather's death and seized the royal treasury, as well as Timur's imperial capital Samarqand. This is a Latin transcription of a letter from Timur to Charles VI, and another from Miran Shah, his son, to the Christian princes, announcing their victory over Bayezid I at Smyrna. He was later killed whilst battling against the Timurid's traditional rivals, the Qara Qoyunlu. Ruy González de Clavijo, the Castilian ambassador to Timur's court, claimed that the prince had ancient buildings destroyed, supposedly so that it would be known that "Miran Shah did nothing himself, but he ordered the finest works in the world to be demolished". January 1 – The Welsh surrender Harlech Castle to the English. In 1396 Tamerlane appointed his son Miran Shah as viceroy of Azerbaijan. T imur is in the centre and on his right is his son Miran Shah (the first Mughal emperor Babur’s great-great- grandfather) and then Abu Said (Babur’s grandfather). Miramshah was named after the Timurid ruler, Miran Shah, the son of Timur. "[15], In addition to this, Timur had concerns regarding unrest and taxation problems in Miran Shah's domains, as well as the prince's military failures. There are doubts however regarding this claim, since Miran Shah was purported to have had an interest in Muslim historic literature. Ulugh Beg becomes governor of Samarkand. Amongst the main contenders were Miran Shah and Shah Rukh (the two surviving sons of Timur), Pir Muhammad (the son of Jahangir who was Timur’s favorite son and designated heir), and Khalil Sultan (Miran Shah’s son). In the early 1950s, the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) and the “Tochi Scouts” of Pakistan’s paramilitary Frontier Corps carried out counter-insurgency operations … [6], However Miran Shah, who had been suffering from mental issues following a fall from his horse several years earlier, began to show increasingly destructive tendencies during his rule. He decided to return to the Ferghana Valley with his former mentor, Khudaidad Hussain, who went to Moghulistan (the realm of the eastern Chagatai Khans) in an attempt to win their support. In 1396 Miran Shah was given control of Azerbaijan, principally the cities of Soltaniyeh, the former capital of the Ilkhans, and Tabriz. Khalil Sultan (Chagatai/Persian: خلیل سلطان ‎) was the Timurid ruler of Transoxiana from 18 February 1405 to 1409. Timur was the paternal great-great-great grandfather of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire. The latter had considerable influence over Khalil, convincing him to appoint people of so-called low birth to high positions at the expense of the nobility. Nevertheless, the angry Khanzada never returned to her husband and remained with Timur in Samarqand. The prince's fief was now the entirety of northern Persia and Transcaucasia, and included the cities of Baghdad, Tabriz and Soltaniyeh. Timur’s legacy is a mixed one. Miran Shah was commanded to avenge this defeat and routed the enemy force, pursuing the fleeing soldiers as far as Derbent, the frontier of the Golden Horde. ... Miran Shah doctor killed in … Ahmad Jalayir, who had been expelled by Timur fifteen years previously, took advantage of the old emperor's death to recapture his former lands. Khanzada reported her husband's rebellious intentions as well as complaining about her mistreatment at his hands. During his father's reign, Miran Shah was initially a powerful regional governor and prominent military commander, having aided Timur in his conquests as well as suppressing several revolts. [6], In the winter of 1386, Timur launched an invasion of Azerbaijan, an area that had by that point been sought after by the Golden Horde for over a century. His mother was a concubine, Mengli Khatun, daughter of Hayut of the Jauni Qurban tribe. His wife committed suicide shortly after his death. 25th Punjabis (now 9 Punjab, Pakistan Army) regimental band at Miram Shah, NWFP, 1917. The two princes drove out Jalayir at Tabriz before being forced to contend with another former enemy: Qara Yusuf, ruler of the Black Sheep Turkomans. Jahan Sultan Agha, daughter of Ali Mirza Arlat; Muhammad Bahadur Mirza - Jahan Sultan Agha; Muhammad Bayqara Mirza - Shad Malik Agha; Khichak Agha, Shirin Beg Agha - with Jahan Sultan Agha; Sultan Badi-al-Mulk Agha - with Shad Malik Agha, married to, This page was last edited on 25 June 2019, at 21:40. Timur was said to have been at the point of ordering his son's execution, only refraining due to the intercession of his relatives and nobles. [10], In 1394, Timur entered a conflict with members of a Sufi sect known as the Hurufis. He was a son of Miran Shah and a grandson of Timur. How is Timur related to the Mughals? As a result of this rout, all of Timur's western conquests were lost, with the Timurids being subsequently driven out of western Persia. The death of their leader led Astarabadi's followers to have a specific hatred against the Timurids. [5], https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Khalil_Sultan&oldid=903468176, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles containing Persian-language text, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Miran Shah was the son of Timur Lenk, the leader of the Timurid Empire, and aided him in his conquest of the Middle East after 1370.He conquered the Kartid Empire of Afghanistan in 1383, and was made the Governor of Persia. The poet Daulatshah reported that Miran Shah also ordered the tomb of the historian Rashid-al-Din Hamadani be dismantled and for his bones to be re-interred in a Jewish cemetery. [16] Miran Shah, without posing any difficulties, returned with them to face his father, who had by this point arrived in Soltaniyeh to confront him. This was said to be due to the latter's Semitic descent. He died there in 1411. That same year, he destroyed a rebellion against Timurid authority by the Kartids. Stories were heard in the imperial court of chaotic gambling, drinking bouts held within mosques and gold coins being scattered from palace windows to frenzied mobs. [4], Khalil's rule in Samarkand finally ended when Shahrukh Mirza entered the city unopposed on May 13, 1409. [13], By 1393, Timur had conquered all the lands that had formerly been part of the Mongol Ilkhanate. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Philip P. Weisberg, 59.206.10 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 59.206.10_acetate_bw.jpg) [2], Meanwhile, Shahrukh Mirza, who was ruling in Herat, also decided to press his claims. A miniatur e painting (dated 1702-1712) of Timur , his descendants and the Mughal emper ors. Shah Rukh, governor of Herat and Timur's other surviving son, made no offensive move against his nephews at this point. Daulatshah states that Timur was moved to tears when Khanzada presented to him her blood-stained chemise, though this episode was not confirmed in contemporary sources. It attempts to understand public perception towards the peace process including the levels of people’s awareness and satisfaction, and their assessment of the successes and Babur was the son of Umar Sheikh Mirza, son of Abu Sa’id Mirza, son of Sultan Muhammad Mirza, son of Miran Shah Mirza, son of Timur. In 1383, the head of the former royal family, Ghiyas-uddin Pir 'Ali, became complicit in a plot against Timur. A famine caused him to be even more despised. Timur's son, Miran Shah (1366 - April 1408)( also a town in Pakistan), and was granted governorship of Qandahar in 1383. [2], Miran Shah was born in 1366, the third of Timur's four sons. Timur was also the founder of the dynasty that the Mughals belonged to. Timur appoints his son Miran Shah as Timurid viceroy of Azerbaijan. Here Prince Tahir, son of Sultan Ahmad Jalayir, had been besieged by Miran Shah before being relieved by George VI of Georgia, the combined forces of whom defeated the Timurid army. Shams-i-Jahan, however, had Khudaidad Hussain executed for his treason to Khalil and returned Khalil his kingdom. He was a son of Miran Shah and a grandson of Timur. Shortly thereafter, the Turkoman ruler sent Miran Shah's head and body, along with his own condolences, to Shah Rukh, who had emerged the victor in the war of succession. A woman, her son and three daughters were found dead on Thursday morning at their house in Gujranwala's Dongranwala. Muhammad Mirza was the sixth son of Miran Shah, himself the third son of Timur. Following Timur's death in 1405, Miran Shah became embroiled in the ensuing war of succession, having thrown his support behind his son Khalil Sultan. Miran Shah was Timur's eldest living son by this point, but was not considered an active contender to the throne and was passed over in favour of his own son, Khalil Sultan. The Kartid Dynasty is brought to an end in east Persia after its remaining rulers are murdered at a banquet by Miran Shah, son of Timur Lenk. Sevin Beg Khanzada (c. 1360 – 1411) also known as Khanzada, was a princess of the Sufi dynasty, the ruling Turco-Mongol dynasty of Khwarezm, and daughter-in-law twice-over to the Central Asian conqueror Timur through her marriages to his sons Jahangir and Miran Shah.Through her maternal grandfather Jani Beg, she was a direct descendant of Genghis Khan. [3] However, Persian historian Khwandamir instead claims that Khudaidad Hussain began a civil war against Khalil and took him prisoner, delivering him along with his territory to eastern Chagatai Khan Shams-i-Jahan (r. 1399–1408). Miran Shah and Abu Bakr attempted to retake the city in the Battle of Sardrud on the 20 April 1408, but were decisively defeated by the joint efforts of the Turkomans and Jalayirids. Although his designated successor was his grandson Pir Muhammad b. Jahangir, Timur was ultimately succeeded in power by his son Shah Rukh. [24], Though Abu Bakr had managed to escape,[25] Miran Shah was struck down during the battle by a Turkoman chief who, having not recognised the prince, had stripped and looted his body. According to Abu'l Fazl, the Grand Vizier of his descendant Akbar, Muhammad Mirza's mother was Mihr Nush of the Fulad Qiya tribe. In 1905, the British constructed Miramshah Fort to control North Waziristan. Timur's appointed successor Pir Muhammad was quickly cast aside, and Khalil gained control of Samarkand. Mirza Jalal-ud-din[1] Miran Shah Beg (1366 – 20 April 1408), commonly known as Miran Shah (Persian: میران شاہ‎), was a son of the Central Asian conqueror Timur, founder of the Timurid Empire. 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