THE POLITICAL ASCENT OF SULTAN HUSAYN MIRZO (1457–1470) IN THE LIGHT OF TIMURID NARRATIVE SOURCES

This thesis investigates the formative phase of Sultan Husayn Mirzo's political biography — the period between 1457 and 1470 — during which he was transformed from a marginal regional claimant into the undisputed sovereign of Khorasan. On the basis of the chronicles of Mirkhond, Khondamir, and Abdurazzaq Samarqandi, supplemented by the analytical testimony of the Baburnama, the study reconstructs the military campaigns, diplomatic missions, and shifting factional alliances that defined this trajectory. It argues that Husayn Mirzo's eventual triumph was the product not of uninterrupted military superiority but of strategic persistence and an acute mastery of late Timurid factional politics.本论文考察了苏丹·侯赛因·米尔扎（Sultan Husayn Mirzo）政治生平的形成阶段——即1457年至1470年这一时期——在此期间，他从一名边缘性的区域权力宣称者，转变为呼罗珊无可争议的统治者。本研究以米尔洪德（Mirkhond）、坎达米尔（Khondamir）与撒马尔罕的阿卜杜勒·拉扎克（Abdurazzaq Samarqandi）的编年史为基础，辅以《巴布尔纳玛》（Baburnama）的分析性佐证，重构了塑造这一发展轨迹的军事征伐、外交使命与不断流变的派系联盟。研究认为，侯赛因·米尔扎的最终胜利并非源于持续不间断的军事优势，而是战略韧性与对帖木儿晚期派系政治娴熟掌控的成果。