Tarikh-i-Rashidi as a source on the history of Ulus Jochi

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the information from Tarikh-i-Rashidi regarding the history of the Golden Horde. The main material of the study was the complete translation of Tarikh-i-Rashidi, carried out in the 1990s and revised in the 2010s. Five theses are proposed: the nomadic population of the Golden Horde; the number of nomads who migrated with Muhammad Sheibani; the identity of the Mogul Dughlat and Kazakh Dulat tribes; the fate of Juchid Buruj-Oglan, killed between 1472-1473, and the Kazakh population. According to Tarikh-i-Rashidi, the number of Kazakhs reached one million people, but at some point, they completely disappeared from the face of the earth. But as the geopolitical situation changed, the Kazakhs returned to the historical arena. There was no physical disappearance of Kazakhs in the sixteenth century.