Shamkhal (title)

rdf:langString Shamkhal (title)

rdf:langString The fact that the ruler in Dagestan was chosen from the Chinghiz dynasty and called shawkhal-khan , derived from the Turkic, Tatar spiritual tradition, as a reliance on their genealogical ancestry , not paying attention to the science or courtesies . The house of Chinghiz is highly esteemed amongst them , as Quraysh amongst Muslims. They didn't allow someone to stand higher than them or lift heads.

rdf:langString As some Persian sources say, this people settled here under the Abumuselim shah, from the Gilan Province and served under the cleric official kazi, under the rule of Shamkhal. Because of that cleric and the people of Kumukh place, who resettled here from Gilan, or, better said, by the mixture with the indigenous Kumukh people, who originate from Dagestan Tatars, the name Kazikumuk emerged. This clerics were the ancestors of Khamutay [contemporary Khan of Kazikumukh], who following the example of others claimed in their parts independence and in the present times adopted the Khan title.

rdf:langString Shamkhal wasn't a descendant of Abbas Hamza but a Turk, who came with his companions. After him the Shamkhalate became a hereditary state.

rdf:langString there is all necessary proofs to relate the term to the Golden Horde, but not to the Arabs. We may think that in the period of the Mongol-Tatars they put a Kumyk ruler in that status [Shamkhal].

rdf:langString The people of this province come from Dagestan Tatars, mixed with the Persian settlers; they follow the same [religious] law, and speak [one of the] Lezginian languages.

rdf:langString The first King of the Western Tatars was Sain. He was strong and mighty. He conquered Russia, Comania, Alania, Lak, Mengiar, Gugia and Khazaria, and before his conquest, they all belonged to Comans.

rdf:langString Shamkhal, or Shawhal (Kumyk: Şawhal) is the title for the rulers of Kumyk people in Dagestan and North-East Caucasus during the 8th-19th centuries. By the 16th Century, the state had its capital at Tarki and was thus known as the Shankhalate of Tarki.