Muhammad Sultan (Golden Horde)

Muḥammad-Sulṭān
Khan of the Golden Horde
Western Half (Blue Horde)
Reign1370/1371–1379
PredecessorʿAbdallāh and Tulun Beg Khanum
SuccessorTūlāk
Died1379
DynastyBorjigin
FatherʿAbdallāh?
ReligionIslam

Ghiyās̱ al-Dīn Muḥammad (Persian: غیاث الدین محمد), also known as Muḥammad Khān (Turki/Kypchak: محمد خان; Mamat-Sultan in Russian texts; died 1379) was Khan of the Golden Horde in 1370/1371–1379, as a protégé of the beglerbeg Mamai. While Muḥammad-Sulṭān was recognized as khan throughout the territories dominated by his patron Mamai, he was in possession of the traditional capital Sarai only intermittently, in 1371–1373, 1374, and perhaps briefly in 1375–1376.[1]

  1. ^ Sidorenko 2000: 272-274, 278-280 (he dates Muḥammad-Sulṭān's accession to possibly late 1369 and questions that he ever struck coins at Sarai).