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  "ar": "بركة خان"
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  "ar": "بركة خان ملك التتار أسلم وراسل الملك الظاهر بيبرس وكسر ابن عمه هلاكو في الوقعة الهائلة التي انهزم فيها هولاكو وقتل خلق من رجاله وغرق خلق وهو ابن عم هولاكو وجد أبيهما جنكيزخان توفي في العشر الستين من القرن السابع الهجري {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 305}، وعند ابن خلدون لما عاد إلى بخارى لقي الشيخ الباخوري من أصحاب نجم الدين كبرى الصوفية فأسلم على يده وتأكدت صحبته، واستأذن أخاه منكوفان في الاستيلاء على أعمال الخلافة فأذن له {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar p. 1536}.",
  "en": "Berke Khan, khan of the Golden Horde — a Muslim who corresponded with Baybars and broke his cousin Hulagu in a great battle where multitudes were slain and drowned; grandson of Genghis, he died in the 660s AH {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 305}. Under year 665 Ibn al-Imad gives the obituary: 'Berke b. Tuli b. Genghis Khan, sultan of the Qipchaq realm, who became Muslim and corresponded with al-Zahir and broke his cousin Hulagu — he died in his sixties, and his nephew Mangu-Timur reigned after him' {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 552}."
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   "hijri": "0665",
   "calendar": "julian",
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   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "توفي وهو في عشر الستين وتملك بعده ابن أخيه منكوتمر — أموات سنة خمس وستين {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 552}."
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   "hijri": "0665",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "توفي وهو في عشر الستين وتملك بعده ابن أخيه منكوتمر — أموات سنة خمس وستين {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 552}."
  },
  "gender": "male",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "شذرات الذهب — ابن العماد (ج5)",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "بركة خان ملك من التتار، أسلم وراسل الملك الظاهر [[person/baybars|بيبرس]]. يذكر ابن العماد أنه كسر ابن عمه [[person/hulagu|هولاكو]] في وقعة عظيمة. {cite:shadharat-dhahab p.305}\n\nوعند ابن خلدون: لقي بعد عودته إلى بخارى الشيخ الباخوري من أصحاب نجم الدين كبرى، فأسلم على يده. واستأذن أخاه منكوفان في الاستيلاء على أعمال الخلافة فأذن له. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar p.1536}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/berke-khan",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Berke Khan, a Tatar king, who became a Muslim and corresponded with the Mamluk sultan al-Zahir [[person/baybars|Baybars]]. Ibn al-Imad says that he defeated his cousin [[person/hulagu|Hulagu]] in a great battle. {cite:shadharat-dhahab p.305}\n\nIbn Khaldun says that after he returned to Bukhara he met the shaykh al-Bakhuri of the companions of Najm al-Din Kubra, and became a Muslim at his hand. He asked his brother Mangu-Timur for leave to take over the affairs of the caliphate, and was given it. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar p.1536}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/berke-khan",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "برکہ خان تاتاریوں کے ایک بادشاہ تھے، جو مسلمان ہوئے اور ملک الظاہر [[person/baybars|بیبرس]] کو خط لکھا۔ ابن عماد ذکر کرتے ہیں کہ انہوں نے اپنے چچازاد بھائی [[person/hulagu|ہلاکو]] کو ایک بڑی جنگ میں شکست دی {cite:shadharat-dhahab p.305}.\n\nابن خلدون کے مطابق بخارا واپس آنے کے بعد انہیں نجم الدین کبریٰ کے ساتھیوں میں سے شیخ باخوری ملے، اور ان کے ہاتھ پر وہ اسلام لائے۔ انہوں نے اپنے بھائی منکوفان سے خلافت کے علاقوں پر قبضے کی اجازت مانگی، تو اس نے انہیں اجازت دے دی {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar p.1536}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/berke-khan",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
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  "person/abu-shama-al-dimashqi",
  "person/afif-al-din-al-tilimsani",
  "person/afif-al-din-ibn-mazru",
  "person/ahmad-al-badawi",
  "person/ahmad-al-suhrawardi",
  "person/ahmad-ibn-muhsin",
  "person/al-abraqawhi-ahmad",
  "person/al-astarabadhi-al-hasan",
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  "person/al-baydawi-abd-allah-ibn-umar",
  "person/al-busiri"
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 "updated": "2026-10-18",
 "connections": [
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   "to": "person/jochi-ibn-genghis",
   "type": "child_of",
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   "sources": [
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  "person/chaghatay-ibn-genghis",
  "person/genghis-khan",
  "person/ogedei-khan",
  "polity/golden-horde",
  "person/jochi-ibn-genghis"
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