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.
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.[1]
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.[2] 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.[3] 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.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6] The Mongol prince ("tsarevich") Toktemir, who attacked Tver' in Russia in 1294/1295, is a distinct individual, bearing the same or similar name.[7]
Following the example of his older brother Berke, Tuqa-Timur converted to Islam,[8] sometime after Berke's conversion in 1251–1252.[9] 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.[10] Some of Tuqa-Timur's descendants appear to have remained in the Left Wing (eastern portion) of the Golden Horde,[11] while others were settled in the Right Wing (western portion) when Khan Mengu-Timur gave the Crimea to Tuqa-Timur's son Urung-Timur.[12]
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,[13] starting with the probable Tuqa-Timurid Ordu Malik, who overthrew the Shibanid Timur Khwaja in 1361.[14] A Crimean branch of Tuqa-Timur's descendants furnished the beglerbegMamai with a succession of three puppet khans in 1361–1380.[15] 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.[16] This was also the case with the Kazakh Khanate and, after 1599, the Khanate of Bukhara in Central Asia.[17]
The following is a simplified line of descent to these rulers; generations start with Tuqa-Timur (as 0).[18] 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).
^Howorth 1880: 143, identifies the prince of 1294-1295 with the khan of the time, Toqta; Seleznëv 2009: 186 and 189, suggests the prince of 1294-1295 was a great-grandson of Jochi's son Orda; elsewhere (190-191), he lists other Tuqa-Timurs, grandsons of Jochi's sons Berkechar and (twice) Shiban.
^Welsford 2013: 288-289, who notes that this detail in later narratives might have been intended to elevate Tuqa-Timur and his descendants in comparison to their Shibanid rivals; Jackson 2017: 345.
^For the Crimean Khanate, see especially Bennigsen 1978.
^For the Kazakh Khanate, see especially Sabitov 2008. For the takeover in Bukhara by the "Ashtarkhanid" descendants of Tuqa-Timur, see Welsford 2013; on this branch of the family, more generally, Burton 1997.
^Howorth 1880; Bosworth 1996: 252-262, 288-291, Burton 1997, Gaev 2002, Sagdeeva 2005, Sabitov 2008, Vásáry 2009, Welsford 2013, May 2018 (Stokvis 1888 is outdated); primary sources in Desmaisons 1871–1874, Judin 1992, Tizengauzen 2005 and 2006, Vohidov 2006.
^Počekaev 2010: 372 conflates him with his brother Bāyān and gives their descedants jointly.
^Gaev 2002: 53; Vásáry 2009; correcting the long-held view that this khan was a descendant of Orda Khan, as in, e.g., Howorth 1880: 221 and Stokvis 1888: Chapter 9 Table 7.
^Počekaev 2010: 372 conflates him with his brother Bāyān and gives their descedants jointly.
^Identification preferred by Sabitov 2008: 288, 295, and Sabitov 2014, but rejected by others (e.g., Parunin 2016, Sidorenko 2016) on chronological grounds.
^Sabitov 2014, noting this Sayyid-Aḥmad's patronym Beksubovič in Polish-Lithuanian sources. Počekaev 2010: 205, identifies this Sayyid-Aḥmad as the son of Karīm-Bīrdī.
^Welsford 2013: 50, 52-53, identifies Ūz-Tīmūr with his brother Kay-Tīmūr.
^Gaev 2002: 53; Sabitov 2008: 286; Počekaev 2010: 372; correcting the long-held view that this khan was a descendant of Orda Khan, as in, e.g., Howorth 1880: 221 and Stokvis 1888: Chapter 9 Table 7.
^Howorth 1880: 685; Gaev 2002: 53; Sabitov 2008: 305; Počekaev 2010: 372. For fuller treatment of his descendants, the Kazakh khans and princes, see Sabitov 2008.
^Howorth 1880: 225; Gaev 2002: 53; Počekaev 2010: 372; Welsford 2013: 53, makes him the son of Tūluk-Tīmūr, here given as his brother; correcting the long-held view that this khan was a descendant of Orda Khan, as in, e.g., Stokvis 1888: Chapter 9 Table 7.
^Sabitov 2014, noting this Sayyid-Aḥmad's patronym Beksubovič in Polish-Lithuanian sources; Počekaev 2010: 205, identifies this Sayyid-Aḥmad as the son of Karīm-Bīrdī.
^Preferred by Sabitov 2008: 56, 295; Počekaev 2010: 205, identifies this Sayyid-Aḥmad with Sayyid-Aḥmad II, who ruled in 1432–1452 (but the latter bears the patronym Beksubovič: Sabitov 2014), while making the Sayyid-Aḥmad of 1416 the son of Mamkī: Počekaev 2010: 194.
^Sabitov 2008: 297; erroneously, Howorth 1880: 540, conflates him with Muḥammad Girāy II, while Stokvis 1888: chapter 9, table 7, makes him Muḥammad Girāy II's son.
^Sabitov 2014, noting this Sayyid-Aḥmad's patronym Beksubovič in Polish-Lithuanian sources; Počekaev 2010: 205, identifies this Sayyid-Aḥmad as the son of Karīm-Bīrdī.
^Gaev 2002: 54; Sabitov 2008: 286; Počekaev 2010: 372; Howorth 1880: 259 and Stokvis 1888: chapter 9 table 7 make him erroneously son of Urus' son Tīmūr-Malik.
^Gaev 2002: 54; Sabitov 2008: 286; Počekaev 2010: 372; Howorth 1880: 265-266 and Stokvis 1888: chapter 9 table 7 make him erroneously a brother of Shādī-Beg.
^Gaev 2002: 54; Sabitov 2008: 286; Počekaev 2010: 372; Howorth 1880: 263 and Stokvis 1888: chapter 9 table 7 make him erroneously son of Urus' son Tīmūr-Malik.
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