Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: In the era of the collapse of the Golden Horde, representatives of non-dynastic nobility, leaders of Turkic tribes, gained access to power in some polities. In the Nogay Horde, these were the leaders of the Manghyt tribe. Since they did not belong to the descendants of Genghis Khan as the only basis for legitimate rule, they had to invent other ways to legitimize their managerial prerogatives. Inside the court environment of Manghyt leaders, a genealogical combination was compiled regarding the pedigree of the founder of the Nogay ruling dynasty, Bek Ӓdigü. His origin was artificially erected to the Sufi preacher of the 14 th century Khoja Ahmad Baba Tükles, and he, in turn, was declared a direct descendant of the first caliph Abu Bakr al-Siddiq. In this pedigree, there was a mixture of purely Sufi silsila (as a succession of pious sheikhs) and a succession of purely secular rulers, including clearly legendary ones.
Source: Islam in the modern world
Author: V. V. Trepavlov
Institution: Russian Academy of Sciences
Language: English
Topic: Eurasian Exchange Networks
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4367609747