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A Glance at Persian, European, and Russian Historical Sources on the Manghit Dynasty1 in the 19th Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 March 2016
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Historians confront numerous difficulties while doing research on Central Asia, particularly concerning the contemporary period. Historical developments in the relations between Iran and Central Asia, especially following the rise of the Soviet Union, have led to the creation of high walls separating Iran from those countries, and have made research and information exchange impossible. Historical sources for this period are scarce and inaccessible, and researchers cannot easily access the little that exists in the form of manuscripts kept in the archives of Iranian libraries. Moreover, the writers of the Qajar period have dealt with only a very small sample of the events that took place in that part of the world, and then mostly with those occurring along the Iranian borders. Thus, they reveal little about developments inside Transoxiana.
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The Manghits attained great power and influence during the reign of the Janian Dynasty that ruled as the khans of Astrakhan. In the second half of the 18th Century their first chief, Abd al-Rahim, followed by Daniel, became ministers to the rulers of Bukhara and eventually replaced them. Shah Murad bin Daniel, also known as Mir Ma’sum (1785-1800) is considered as the founder of this dynasty. During the reign of Muzafar al-Din bin Nasrullah (1868), the Manghit khanate gradually came under the influence of Russia. Muzafar al-Din died in 1886. His son, Seyyid Abd al-Ahad and his grandson, Mir Alam (Alim) were his successors. Following Russia’s defeat in World War I, like other khanates of Central Asia, Mir Alam also regained his independence. This independence, however, did not last long, and he was dethroned in 1920 after the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia. Following the fall of Mir Alam, Bukhara became a socialist republic and he escaped to Afghanistan.
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