Editing Tokhtamysh (section)

== Ancestry ==
According to the detailed genealogies of the ''Muʿizz al-ansāb'' and the ''Tawārīḫ-i guzīdah-i nuṣrat-nāmah'', Tokhtamysh was a descendant of [[Tuqa-Timur]], the thirteenth son of [[Jochi]], the eldest son of [[Genghis Khan]]. They provide the following ancestry: Tūqtāmīsh, son of Tuy-Khwāja,  the son of Qutluq-Khwāja, the son of Kuyunchak, the son of Sārīcha, the son of Ūrung-Tīmūr, the son of Tūqā-Tīmūr, the son of Jūjī.<ref>Gaev 2002: 53; Sagdeeva 2005: 71; Jackson 2005: 369; Sabitov 2008: 286; Seleznëv 2009: 182; Počekaev 2010: 155, 372; May 2018: 364; for the primary sources, see Vohidov 2006: 46 and Tizengauzen 2006: 436.</ref> According to Muʿīn-ad-Dīn Naṭanzī (previously known as the "Anonymous of Iskandar"), Tokhtamysh's mother was Kutan-Kunchek of the [[Khongirad]] tribe.<ref>Tizengauzen 2006: 261.</ref> Older scholarship followed the inaccurate testimony of Naṭanzī in making [[Urus Khan]] and, by extension, Tokhtamysh, descendants of Jochi's son [[Orda Khan|Orda]]. This erroneous view has only gradually been abandoned, first for Tokhtamysh, and later for Urus.<ref>E.g., Howorth 1880: 222, 225–226; Grousset 1970: 406, 435; Bosworth 1996: 252.</ref> Although Urus and Tokhtamysh are often described as uncle and nephew, they were in fact fourth cousins.