Shudja ad Din Ahmad Khan

Shah Shujaʿ al-Din Ahmad Khan (commonly known as Khan Shahid) was the Khan of the Yarkent Khanate after death of his father Muhammad Sultan from 1609 to 1618. Khanship Shudja ad-Din Ahmad Khan was a ruler of Kashgar and became a Great Khan or Chong Khan of the Yarkand Khanate after the death of his father Muhammad Khan in 1609, who was a 5th son of Abdurashid Khan. Shudja ad-Din Ahmad Khan had 2 sons: elder Ziya ud-Din Ahmad Sultan, more known as a Temur Sultan, born in 1592, and second Abdal Latif Sultan, more known as Afak Khan (1618-1630), born in 1605, who succeeded him as a Great Khan of Yarkand. Temur Sultan was a ruler of Aksu, when his father became a Khan in Yarkand, he gave to Temur Sultan Kashgar and Yangi Hisar instead of Aksu and appointed Mirza Haidar Churas as his Atalik, he died in 1615 during accident with his horse. Portuguese Jesuit Bento de Gois, who visited Aksu in 1604, described him as 12-year old local ruler and a nephew of Muhammad Khan. During Shudja ad-Din Ahmad Khan rule the break between Western and Eastern parts of the country continued to deepen, because Abduraim Khan (1591-1594, 1605-1634), youngest son of Abdurashid Khan and a Little Khan or Kichik Khan of Eastern part of the country (Chalish-Turpan-Kumul), known at the time as Uyghurstan, considered annexation by Muhammad Khan cities of Bai and Kucha from Eastern part of the country as a violation of the Treaty, concluded between Sultan Said Khan and Mansur Khan in Bai in 1516. Peaceful Treaty of 1516 actually created a Yarkand Khanate as a one centralized state from Kumul to Kashgar and further to Sarikol till the ruby mines of Badakhshan and nominally put Mansur Khan, as an elder brother, into a priority position in the united Yarkand Khanate. Shudja ad-Din Ahmad Khan failed to make a peace with Abduraim Khan and hostilities between two parts of the Yarkand Khanate continued till the death of Shudja as-Din Ahmad Khan in 1618. Death Shudja ad-Din Ahmad Khan was killed in 1618 during hunting when his camp in the mountains was attacked at night by 600 armed men of Muhammad Kasim Shah, ruler of Sarikol. Shudja ad-Din Ahmad Khan became a victim of the struggle between Moghul Emirs for the influence and power in the Yarkand Khanate, when he attempted to put Churas Emirs into a privilege position in the Khanate, that caused objection of many other Emirs and Sultans, who used Shah of Sarikol for his assassination.