Gutul Khan of the House of Black Monk

HAJI SEID ABDULGAMID PEDIGREE OF SHEKINA KHANS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS From the stories and messages transmitted by ancestors who lived in antiquity, it has come down to us that until 848, according to Islamic chronology (1444-1445), there was no independent ruler or khan in the Sheki vilayet, but [this region] was ruled on the basis of reasonable the advice and instructions of the kendhudas and the elders.

In the same year, Jandar Kara-Keshish oglu converted to Islam and took the name Alijan. At that time, the askers of the amirs of the Iranian vilayets, taking advantage of the fact that there were no rulers and khans in Sheki, made night raids on Sheki, robbed and took away many prisoners.

Alijan was a very smart, capable and brave man. The Nukha and Sheki inhabitants, having concluded an alliance, elected Alijan as ruler and made him a khan, so that he ruled the Sheki vilayet and protected it from the atrocities of the Persian robbers; and he ran perfectly. [He] died in 861 (1456-1457).

After him, his son became Khan, named Kutul, who, having achieved [by various] means of the Shah’s decree on the Khanate, began to govern the Sheki Vilayet. [He] died in ... 1 g. His son, by the name of Sheki Khan 2 , became Khan . He died in ...

His son Hasan Sultan came into possession of the Sheki Khanate.