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Fragmentation of the Kara-Khanid Khanate
In 1156, the Western Kara-Khanid Khanate faced a severe crisis amid internal division and a Karluq military governor's rebellion: Great Khan Ibrahim …
Timeline
- 1156Hungry Steppe · TransoxianaWestern Kara-Khanid Khan Ibrahim Tabghach Khan and Karluk military governor Ayar Bek had long-standing enmity, and the two sides clashed at the Hungry Steppe. Ibrahim was defeated and captured; after being killed, his body was left exposed in the wilderness, dealing a fatal blow to the authority of Western Kara-Khanid rule.
- 1156Samarkand · Western Kara-Khanid KhanateIbrahim's son Mahmud reigned briefly for about a year; his brother Ali b. Hasan entered from Eastern Kara-Khanid Uzgen and took the title Chaghri Khan. Yelü Yilie dispatched 10,000 Eastern Kara-Khanid reinforcements to help Ali avenge his father, killing Ayar Bek, but the east-west division of the Kara-Khanids and tribal fragmentation had become impossible to mend.
Sources
- Kara-Khanid Khanate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara-Khanid_Khanate
- Qara Khitai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qara_Khitai
- ILAK-KHANIDS — O. Pritsak https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ilak-khanids/