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Fath-Ali Khan of Shaki

Fath-Ali Khan of Shaki

Khan of Shaki (d. 1815)


Fatali Khan (Azerbaijani: فتحعلی خان / Fətəli xan) was the seventh khan of Shaki.

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Biography

Gravestone of Fatali Khan

He was born to Muhammad Husayn Khan Mushtaq and daughter of Malik Ali, Sultan of Arash.[1] He was still a child when he fought along his father against Haji Khan and witnessed his capture. He was blinded by his half-brother Muhammad Hasan Khan c. 1785 in order to prevent another civil war.

He was proclaimed a khan by local nobility in opposition to Mostafa Khan's designs in 1805. After reign of a month or so, he was forced to step down in favor of his half-brother Salim Khan.[2]

He ruled Shaki for a second time, again briefly this time with certain Mammad beg on the orders of Ivan Gudovich. Reasoning for his appointment was his hatred of his half-brothers.[3] He was soon replaced by Jafar Qoli Khan Donboli, former ruler of Tabriz and Khoy in 1806. He died on 12 May 1815 and buried in Khan cemetery near Shaki Khan's Mosque.

Family

He was married to a certain Khurshid khanum from Quba and had one son, Karim agha Shakikhanov who authored "Brief History of Shaki Khans".


References

  1. Shakikhanov, Karim agha. "Brief History of Shaki Khans". www.drevlit.ru. Retrieved 2019-07-03.
  2. Dubrovin, Nikolay Fedorovich (1886). "History of War and Russian Dominion in the Caucasus (Volume 5)" p. 426-427
  3. Dubrovin, Nikolay Fedorovich (1886). "History of War and Russian Dominion in the Caucasus (Volume 5)" p. 88

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