{{Short description|First Khan of Sibir}} '''Taibuga''' ({{langx|sty|Тайбоға}}), the first [[Khan (title) |khan]] of the [[Khanate of Sibir]], came to power in the 13th century as a result of the power vacuum caused by the breakup of the [[Mongol Empire]]. Some legendary accounts identify him as a noble from [[Bukhara]] and associate him with the conversion of Sibir to [[Islam]].<ref> {{cite book | last1 = Frank | first1 = Allen J. | title = Bukhara and the Muslims of Russia: Sufism, Education, and the Paradox of Islamic Prestige | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=CVozAQAAQBAJ | series = Brill's Inner Asian Library | date = 14 September 2012 | publisher = Brill | publication-date = 2012 | page = 37 | isbn = 9789004234901 | accessdate = 2015-10-12 | quote = In the historical legends of the Siberian Tatars the two Muslim dynasties that pre-dated the Russian conquest are linked explicitly to Bukhara. [...] Several accounts in West Siberian Turkic manuscripts relate an account of the history of the dynasty that Kuchum displaced, the Taybughids. These legends [...] state that the founder of the Taybughid dynasty, Taybugha Biy, came from Bukhara, and was the son of a ruler there. Taybugha Biy brought a number of religious scholars with him, and they were responsible for the Islamization of Siberia. }} </ref>
The facts of his reign remain relatively unclear, but it appears he was a [[shamanist]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b_YUAAAAYAAJ&dq=Taibuga&pg=PA1062 |title=History of the Mongols: The so-called Tartars of Russia and Central Asia. 2 v |date=1880 |work= |publisher=Longmans, Green, and Company |accessdate=2 July 2008}}</ref> Taibuga drove the forces of [[Novgorod]] from his land.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13767b.htm |title=Catholic Encyclopedia |date=1912 |work= |publisher=Robert Appleton Company |accessdate=2 July 2008}}</ref> He was claimed as the founding ancestor by the Taibuga clan of Sibir.<ref>{{cite book |author=James Forsyth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nzhq85nPrdsC&dq=Taibuga&pg=PA25 |title=A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990 |date=1994 |work= |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521477710 |accessdate=2 July 2008}} </ref>
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