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Isfandiyar Khan, or Asfandiyar Khan (Turki and Persian: اسفندیار خان; 1871 – 1 October 1918), born Isfandiyar Jurji Bahadur, was the Khan of Khiva between September 1910 and 1 October 1918, the 53rd Khan of Khiva, and the 12th Khongirad ruler of the Uzbeks. [1] He was overthrown and executed by Junaid Khan in 1918.
From 1910 to 1918, the Khanate was ruled by Isfandiyar Khan.An attempt to hold liberal reforms after the February Revolution of 1917, the abdication of Nicholas II and the coming to power of the Russian Provisional Government failed, in particular, because of the conservative views of Isfandiyar Khan, who began to hinder these reforms.
On 5 (18) April 1917, they persuaded Isfandiyar Khan of Khiva to issue a manifesto on the establishment of a constitutional monarchy in the territory of the Khanate. The post of chairman in the newly created Majlis (Assembly) was taken by Bobohun Salimov, one of the most prominent Young Khivans. [ 2 ]
Isfandiyar Khan succeeded Lutfullah Shirazi as Faujdar of Sylhet in 1663. Isfandiyar was known to have destroyed the Adina Mosque replica in Sylhet town because the imam started Eid al-Adha prayers without waiting for him. However, after its destruction, Isfandiyar attempted to build another mosque in Dargah Mahalla.
The Khan of Khiva in 1918 was Isfandiyar Khan, but he was completely overshadowed by his Turkmen General, Junaid Khan, who had crushed all demands for reforms by the Young Khivans in spring 1918. In September 1918 Junaid Khan raided Urgench, which was still under Russian control and took some Russians prisoner.
Their power was formalized as the Qongrat dynasty by Iltuzar Khan in 1804. Khiva flourished under Muhammad Rahim Khan (1806–1825) and Allah Quli Khan (1825–1840) and then declined. After Muhammad Amin Khan was killed trying to retake Sarakhs on March 19, 1855, [18] there was a long Turkmen rebellion (1855–1867). In the first two years of ...
The Turkoman Revolt of 1915 [1] was a revolt by Yomud Turkomans against the Khanate of Khiva, which was at the time was ruled by Isfandiyar Khan. It was not supported by any of the Central Powers. Its causes laid in the arrest of a Yomut chieftain, Bakhshi Shah Murad.
Mukarram Khan, Mughal sardar of Sylhet who would later become Subahdar of Bengal; Mirak Bahadur Jalair, Mughal sardar of Sylhet; Sulayman Banarsi, Mughal co-sardar of Sylhet, governed over southern parts of Sylhet; Lutfullah Shirazi, Mughal faujdar of Sylhet from 1658 to 1665; Isfandiyar Khan, Mughal faujdar of Sylhet