Tekuder Khan (Soltan Ahmad) Borjigin dynasty

ref An Oriental Biographical Dictionary, Thomas William Beale [... He put his own brother to death and was successful in obtaining possession of the person of his nephew, Argun Khan; but that prince was not only rescued from his violence by the Mughul nobles, but by their aid, was enabled to deprive him of his crown and life on the night of Thursday 11th August 1284 (AH 683) and become his successor.]

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Succede a Abaqa.

Tekuder was born Nikola (Nicholas - Nekodar) Tekuder Khan, and was baptized in his childhood as a Nestorian Christian. However, Tekuder later converted to Islam and changed his name to Ahmed.

[Ahmad Takudar ( Naqudar Aghlan ) Текудер طرغان (Soltan Ahmad) r.1282-1284 - third ilkhan - 7th son of Hülegü, by Qūtūī Ḵātūn.

Ascension and sultanate When Tekuder assumed the throne in 1282, he turned the Ilkhanate into a sultanate.

Ahmed Tekuder (Mongolian: Tögöldör/Төгөлдөр, meaning “perfect”), also known as Sultan Ahmad (reigned 1282–1284), was the sultan of the Persian-based Ilkhanate, son of Hulegu and brother of Abaqa. He was eventually succeeded by his nephew Arghun Khan.

He succeeded his brother Abaqa and assumed the name of Aḥmad (Aḥmad Tegüder).

[...On Abaka's death, Taquar set out for Tebriz from Kurdistan and Arghun who was already on his way from Khorasan, halted at Meragha and heard from the amir Singtur Noyan of his father's death. --- Taqudar was unanimously elected on the 6th of May 1282...As he was a Muhammedan, he adopted the name Ahmed (the Acomat of Marco Polo) and the title of Sultan...] ref page 286-287 History of the Mongols from the 9th t the 19th century - Volume 3] BUT [Ahmed ordered the Buddhist temples and the Christian churches to be converted into mosques ]...[ He threatened to decapitate the Christians who refused to adopt Islam and summoned the kings of Armenia and Georgia to his court ...] p 287 History of the Mongols from the 9th to the 19th century - volume 3

Early life

Tekuder was born Nikola (Nicholas) Tekuder Khan, and was baptized in his childhood as a Nestorian Christian. However, Tekuder later converted to Islam and changed his name to Ahmed.

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Ascension and sultanate

When Tekuder assumed the throne in 1282, he turned the Ilkhanate into a sultanate. Tekuder zealously propagated his new faith and sternly required his ranking officers to do the same. However, his nephew Arghun, the governor of Khorasan, was a Buddhist; and asked Kublai Khan, the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire and the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, for help. Although, Kublai was angry with the situation, Arghun had to overthrow Tekuder himself given that the Great Khan's empire was far away from Persia.

Tekuder sent a friendly letter to the Mamluk sultan and wished for peace. His conversion to Islam and good ties with the Mamluks were not viewed well by Mongol nobles.

When Arghun received no reply, he declared war against Tekuder. Tekuder requested help from the Mamluk Sultan but the Mamluks did not fully co-operate with Tekuder. Having a small and inferior army, Tekuder was defeated by Arghun's larger army, and he was eventually executed on August 10, 1284.

[Before he could meet this fresh menace, Abaqa had to deal with Baraq’s relative Tegüder (Tagūdār), who had accompanied Hülegü to Iran as commander of a Čaḡatay contingent and now tried to desert with his forces by way of the Caucasus. Only after Tegüder’s capture did Abaqa move east, routing Baraq’s army in a grimly fought engagement near Herat on 1 Ḏu’l-ḥeǰǰa 668/22 July 1270] http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/abaqa

Ahmed Tekuder (Mongolian: Tögöldör/Төгөлдөр, meaning “perfect”), also known as Sultan Ahmad (reigned 1282–1284), was the sultan of the Persia-based Ilkhanate, son of Hulegu and brother of Abaqa. He was eventually succeeded by Arghun Khan.

Early life Tekuder was born Nicholas Tekuder Khan and had been baptized in his childhood as a Nestorian Christian; however, Tekuder later converted to Islam[1] and changed his name to Ahmed Tekuder.

TEGUDAR - Tekuder - ([1247]-murdered Abshor 10 Aug 1284).  Hethum the Historian's History records that "Abagha's brother Teguder [was] in his youth…baptised Nicholaus but [converted]…and wanted to be styled Muhammad-Khan"[319].  As a child he was baptised into the Nestorian faith with the name NICHOLAS.  He was elected to succeed his brother as TEGUDAR Il-Khan 6 May 1282, announced his conversion to Islam, adopted the name AHMAD and the title Sultan[320], and was enthroned at Ala Tag 21 Jun 1282.  Abul-Ghazi Bahadur records that “Ahmed Khan fils de Holagou Khan” succeeded on the death of “Abaqa Khan” but after reigning two years was killed by “Arghoun fils d’Abaqa Khan”[321].  He was deposed and murdered in a palace conspiracy.

[...Ahmed Tekuder (Mongolian: Tögöldör/Төгөлдөр, meaning “perfect”), also known as Sultan Ahmad (reigned 1282–1284), was the sultan of the Persian-based Ilkhanate, son of Hulegu and brother of Abaqa. He was eventually succeeded by his nephew Arghun Khan.

Tekuder was born Nikola (Nicholas) Tekuder Khan, and was baptized in his childhood as a Nestorian Christian. However, Tekuder later converted to Islam and changed his name to Ahmed.

When Tekuder assumed the throne in 1282, he turned the Ilkhanate into a sultanate. Tekuder zealously propagated his new faith and sternly required his ranking officers to do the same. However, his nephew Arghun, the governor of Khorasan, was a Buddhist; and asked Kublai Khan, the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire and the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, for help. Although, Kublai was angry with the situation, Arghun had to overthrow Tekuder himself given that the Great Khan's empire was far away from Persia.[clarify]

Tekuder sent a friendly letter to the Mamluk sultan and wished for peace. His conversion to Islam and good ties with the Mamluks were not viewed well by Mongol nobles.

When Arghun received no reply, he declared war against Tekuder. Tekuder requested help from the Mamluk Sultan but the Mamluks did not fully co-operate with Tekuder. Having a small and inferior army, Tekuder was defeated by Arghun's larger army, and he was eventually executed on August 10, 1284.] ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekuder

Il embrasse l'islam apres sa montee au trone et prend ses ministres parmi les musulmans. Il abolit toutes les morales mongoles et donne expansion a l'Islam. Le resultat est que son frere Arghun cherche a le detroner et obtient l'aide de Sultan Ahmed. Ahmad Khan sera pris, torture et mis a mort. Son ministre est Sheikh Kamaluddin Abdul Rahman al Rafei

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=a22nrHMlQccC&pg=PA315&lpg=PA315...

AḤMAD TAKŪDĀR, third il-khan of Iran (r. 680-83/1282-84), seventh son of Hülegü (Hūlāgū), by Qūtūī Ḵātūn. The year of his birth is not specified by Persian sources, but since Ebn ʿAbd-al-Ẓāher (Tašrīf al-ayyām wa’l-ʿoṣūr fī sīrat al-malek al-Manṣūr, ed. M. Kāmel, Cairo, 1961, p. 271) gives his age at his death as thirty-seven, he must have been born around 645/1247. He was given the Mongol name Tegüder (“perfect”); his Muslim name dates only from his conversion, prior to which, according to Hayton (Recueil des historiens des croisades. Documents arméniens II, Paris, 1906, p. 185), he was a Christian. Upon the death of his elder brother, the il-khan Abāqā, in Ḏu’l-ḥeǰǰa, 680/April, 1282, Aḥmad came from Kurdistan for the funeral obsequies at Jaḡātū. Since he was Hülegü’s eldest surviving son, he was favored by the majority of the amirs for the succession in preference to the late sovereign’s son Arḡūn. He was duly elected as ruler on 26 Moḥarram 681/6 May 1282 and enthroned at Ala Tāḡ (Ālā Dāḡ), east of lake Van in what is now Turkey, on 13 Rabīʿ I/21 June, assuming the title Solṭān Aḥmad.]...[A%E1%B8%A5mad%E2%80%99s brief reign is dominated by his steadily worsening relations with Arḡūn, who had been persuaded to stand down in his uncle’s favor but who resented the fact that the enthronement had taken place in his absence and in addition suspected Aḥmad’s protégés, the brothers Jovaynī, of having poisoned his father.]...[ Aḥmad then dispatched his son-in-law,

the Georgian general Alīnāq, against Arḡūn, ...]

...[But a former supporter of Arḡūn’s, the amir Būqā, who had recently quarreled with the il-khan over his breach of the truce and had been dismissed from his command, now freed the prince and slew Alīnāq along with Aḥmad’s remaining supporters. On receiving this news, Aḥmad fled west in order to take refuge in the territory of the Golden Horde, but was arrested en route and handed over to his nephew. Arḡūn was personally disposed towards clemency, but the report of a rebellion by the princes Hülečü (Hūlāǰū) and Jöškeb (Jūškāb) in Hamadān rendered it necessary at least to eliminate this rival of longer standing. Aḥmad was handed over to Qonḡūrtāi’s (Hulegu's 9th son) family and executed in the same manner as his former victim, by having his back broken to avoid the shedding of royal blood, on 26 Jomādā I 683/10 August 1284.]

[Ultimately, the upheavals of the reign must be attributed not to religion but to Aḥmad’s own lack of vigor on his accession and his failure to guard himself by stern measures against potential rivals such as his brother and nephew.]

ref:http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ahmad-takudar-third-il-khan-o...

p.287 Dictionary of Iran: A Shorter Encyclopedia By D. L. Bradley

تِگودار (احمد) پس از پدرش هولاکوخان و برادرش اباقا سومین پادشاه سلسله ایلخانان ایران بود. او در ابتدا یک مسیحی نسطوری بود اما بعداً به دین اسلام گروید، خود را احمد نامید و به سنت پادشاهان مسلمان خود را سلطان نامید. او برخلاف اخلافش و نیز برخلاف رای و نظر امیران و بزرگان مغول دشمنی و جنگ با مملوکان مصر را ادامه نداد و برای سلطان مملوک پیام دوستی فرستاد. همین کار باعث تضعیف جایگاه او نزد بزرگان مغول شد. ارغون فرزند اباقا که از ابتدا مدعی جدی تاج و تخت ایلخانی بود دست به شورش نهاد و با پشتیبانی امرا و بزرگان مغول تگودار را به زیرآورد و برتخت او نشست و تگودار که پیشتر در راه تثبیت قدرتش یکی از شاهزادگان مغول به نام قونقورتای را به قتل رسانده بود، به همین جرم محاکمه و در بیست و ششم جمادی‌الاول ۶۸۳ ه. ق. /۱۲۸۴ م. با شکستن کمرش اعدام شد. این نوع اعدام برای ریخته نشدن خون بزرگان مغول انجام می‌شده است.