Sultan Satuq Bughra Khan

Satuq Bughra Khan
Khagan of Karakhanids
Reign942-955 (or 958)
PredecessorOghulchak Khan
SuccessorMusa Baytash Khan
BornWinter, 920
DiedAH 344 (955/956)
Artush, Kara-Khanid Khanate
Burial
Kashgar
HouseKarakhanids
FatherBazir Arslan Khan
ReligionTengrism before 934
Islam after 934

Abdulkarim Satuq Bughra Khan (Uyghur: سۇلتان سۇتۇق بۇغراخان; also spelled Satuk; died 955)[2] was a Kara-Khanid khan; in 934, he was one of the first Turkic rulers to convert to Islam,[3] which prompted his Kara-Khanid subjects to convert.[4]

There are different historical accounts of the Satuq's life with some variations. Sources include Mulhaqāt al-Surāh (Supplement to the "Surah") by Jamal Qarshi (b. 1230/31) who quoted an earlier 11th-century text, Tarikh-i Kashghar (History of Kashgar) by Abū-al-Futūh 'Abd al-Ghāfir ibn al-Husayn al-Alma'i, an account by an Ottoman historian, known as the Munajjimbashi, and a fragment of a manuscript in Chagatai, Tazkirah Bughra Khan (Memory of Bughra Khan).

  1. ^ a b c Robert Shaw (1878). A Sketch of the Turki Language: As Spoken in Eastern Turkistan ... pp. 119–.
  2. ^ "Saudi Aramco World : Kashgar: China's Western Doorway". Archived from the original on 2004-04-06.
  3. ^ András Róna-Tas, Hungarians & Europe in the Early Middle Ages: An Introduction to Early Hungarian, (Central European University Press, 1999), 256.
  4. ^ Svat Soucek, A History of Inner Asia, (Cambridge University Press, 2002), 84.