Uzbekistan: Muhammad Shaybani, Khan of the Uzbeks (1500-1510) seated in a yurt or ger (tent).

Abu 'I-Fath Muhammad, known in later centuries as Shaybani Khan (c. 1451 – 2 December 1510), was a khan of the Uzbeks (from 1500) who continued consolidating various Uzbek tribes and laid foundations for their ascendance in Transoxiana. He was a descendant of Genghis Khan through his grandson Shayban and considered the Timurids as usurpers of the Genghisid heritage in Central Asia. His native Turkic name was Shabaq/Shebaq (wormwood, whence Shaibak, thence Shaybani--a pseudo-authentication of a common Turkic name into a more prestigious Arabic tribal name of Shayban).

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Great Khans,