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 Turkan 275 ITgarsen Turkan Ehatun, lyy^ O^y, wife of Sultan Jalal- uddin Malikshah. Turkman, lu'*^^} the poetical name of a person whose father was a native of Shi'raz,. hut he was bom in India, and was living about the year 1690 A. D., 1102 A. H. Turtush, ij^^, a brother of Malikshah the Saljukian, against whom he rebelled and was compelled to save himself by leaving the kingdom. This appears to be the same person called by Ibn-Khallikan, Tutush the son of Alp Arsalan, who took prisoner Atsiz a Sultan of Khwa- rizm and put him to death on the 21st October, 1078 A. D., 11th Eabi' II, 471 A H. Turtush was slain in a battle fought against his nephew Barkayarak on Sunday the 25th February, 1095 A. D., 17th Safar, 488 A. H., aged 30 years. Tutash, ti*^"*j I'ide Turtush, D 'Ubeid or 'Ubeid, '^i^'^, a poet who lived in the time of Sultan Ghayas-uddfn Tughlak Shah, and was buried alive on account of his having raised a false report that the king was dead, and that a great revolution had taken place at Dehli. This event took place in the second year of the king's reign, 1322 A. D., 722 A. H. 'Ubeid. Ehan, "^^j ruler of the Uzbaks, was con- temporary vsdth Shah Tahmasp I Safwf king of Persia, who in a battle defeated his troops and gave them a signal overthrow in 1527 A. D., 935 A. H. 'Ubeid-ullah, "^^y sovereign of the Uzbaks. This monarch was the nephew of the celebrated Shahi Beg Khan, the conqueror. He commenced his reign about the year 1542 A. D., 949 A. H. 'Ubeid-uUah Ahrar Nakshband, ^i■^^J^r=^l V a celebrated learned Musalman and saint of Khu- rasan, among the number of whose disciples Maulwi Janu was one. He died in the month of February, 1491 A D., Eabi' II, 896 A. H., and is buried at Samarkand. Amir Alisher, the celebrated wazir of Sultan Husain Mirza, who much respected him, found the chronogram of the year of his death in the words " Khuld Barin," 'Ubeid-uUah bin-Masa'ud, .J^*-" cr-? V author of a Commentary on the Wikaya a work on juris prudence, entitled " Sharh Wikaya." He is also the author of the " Nikaya" which is sometimes called " Mukhtasir-al-Wikaya," being in fact, an abridgment of that work. 'Ubeid-uUah died 1349 A. D., 750 A. H. See Mahmud surnamed Burhan-ash-Shariat. 'Ubeid-iiUah ibn-Kais (or Qais), c^l 'W.a^^ a distinguished Arabian poet, who commemorated the death of Misaa'b the son of Zubeir, who was on terms of friendship with him, and had fought in his cause in the year 690 A. D., 71 A. H. 'ITbeid-ullali ibn-Zayad, 'i^i) eHl <**■^^, was ap- pointed governor of Kufa by the khali'f Yezid in the room of Al-Naman 679 A. D., 60 A. H. He beheaded Muslim, Husain's cousin, and his troops surrounded Husain at Karbala, who having desperately engaged his troops, was after long resistance cut to pieces with all his men in October, 680 A. D., Muharram, 61 A. H. In the reign of ' Abdulmalik, 'Ubeid-uUah was sent to Kufa with leave to plunder it for three days ; but before he reached that city, Al-Mukhtar, then ruler of that place, sent his forces against him under the command of Ibra- him the son of Alashtar, when after a sharp engagement, 'Ubeid-uUah's forces were beaten and himself kiUed in the camp. Ibrahim having cut off his head, sent it to Al-Makhtar, and burnt his body. This circumstance took place in August 686 A. D., Muharram, 67 A. H. 'Ubeid-ullah-al-Mahdi, (^^^t^t a cHef of Barbary in Africa, who in 910 A. D., 298 A. H., rebelled against the king of that country of the race of Aghlab, and assumed the title of Khalif of Kairwan (the ancient Gyrene, and residence of the Aghlabite princes). To give the greater weight to his pretensions, he also took the surname of Al-Mahdf, the director. According to some, also, he pretended to be descended in a right line from 'AH the son of Abu Talib, and Fatima the daughter of Muhammad ; for which reason, the Arabs caUed him and his descendants Fatimites. He likewise encouraged himself and his followers by a traditional prophecy of Muhammad, that at the end of 300 years the sun should rise out of the West. Having at length driven the Aghlabites into Egypt, where they became known by the name of Maghrabians, he extended his dominions in Africa and Sicily, making Kairwan the place of his resi- dence. He sent several of his generals at different times to conquer Egypt, but they were always defeated and obliged to fly to Kairwan. Al-Mahdi reigned in Barbary 24 years, and was succeeded by his son Abul Kasim, who then took the surname of Al-Kayem Mahdi. 'Ubeid Zakani, c^^I^'j "^i^, a celebrated jester and poet, was contemporary with the poet Salman Sawajf. He composed several ludicrous verses on Jahan Khatun the wife of Khwaja Ami'n-uddin, wazir of Shah Abu Is-hak ruler of Shiraz. He is the author of the work called "Eisala dar ilm Bayan," which he dedicated to the king, and also of a Diwan. He died in 1370 A. D., 772 A. H. Udaipuri Begam, iSJi^i-'^)^, the favourite wife of the emperor 'Alamgi'r, and the mother of the prince Kambakhsh whom his father cherished with the utmost tenderness, as the son of his old age. She was living in 1686 A. D. She is believed to have been a Sisodia from Jodhpur. Udai Singh, LS^J^ Eana of Chittor was the son of Eana Sanka the emperor Babar's competitor, but a man of feeble character. In his time the fort of Chittor was taken by the emperor Akbar in March, 1568 A. D., Shaban, 975 A. H. His son Eana Partap founded the new capital caUed Udaipiir, which is still occupied by his descendants. Eana Partap Singh died 1595 A. D., 1''04 A. H., and Amar Singh his son succeeded him and died in the 14th year of Jahangfr, 1620 A. D., 1029 A. H. Udai Singh Rathouri, iSJ^b t^*^-*'' commonly called Mota Eaja, was the son of Eae Maldeo of Jodhpur Marwar. He served under the emperor Akbar, and in the year 1586 A. D., 994 A. H., gave his daughter named Balmati in marriage to Sultan Sali'm (afterwards Jahan- gfr) by whom he had Shah Jahan. He was raised to high rank, and Jodhpur his native country given him in jagfr. He died 1594 A. D., 1002 A. H., and four of his wives burned themselves with his corpse. After his death his son Suraj Singh succeeded him. Ugarsen, "^b c^i^-^j', a raja who is said to have reigned at Agrah several centuries before the time of