Sultan Muhammad (Badakhshan)

Sultan Muḥammad Vays offers Babur a healthy horse to replace his ailing one

Sultan Muhhammad was a 15th-century ruler of Badakhshan. He was the last ruler of the region to be a descendant of Alexander the Great. Abu Sa'id Mirza, ruler of the Timurid Empire, killed Muhammad and supplanted him as ruler of the territory.

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