| Al Khan | |
|---|---|
| Ethnicity | Arab |
| Current region | Bahrain, Saudi Arabia |
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| Earlier spellings | Quraysh, Abassid, Bastaki, Al el khan, Khan |
| Place of origin | Mecca, Saudi Arabia |
| Name origin and meaning | Central Asian title for a sovereign or military ruler |
The House of Al Khan (Arabic: الخان transliteration: ÅĹ Κнăṇ) can also be written al-khan. The Sons of Al Khan of Bahrain and Ad Dammam in the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. The family is categorized as a Huwala family.
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The Sons of Al Khan is an Abbasid Noble family, descended from `Abbas ibn `Abd al-Muttalib, through his son `Abd Allah ibn `Abbas, through the great Aaron the Upright (transliteration: Harun al-Rashid) who was the fifth and most famous Abbasid Caliph, ruler of the Abbasid Empire, and the founder of The House of Wisdom(Arabic: بيت الحكمة; Bait al-Hikma). When Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid was sacked by the Mongol in the is famous Battle of Baghdad on (February 10, 1258), causing great loss of life. Muslims feared that supernatural disaster would strike if the blood of Al-Musta'sim, the last reigning Abbasid caliphate in Baghdad, a direct descendent of Muhammad's uncle, was spilled. Despite the advice of the Learned Shiites of Persia that no such calamity had happened after the deaths of John the Baptist, Jesus Christ, or the Shiite saint Hosein, as a precaution, Hulagu had Al-Musta'sim wrapped in a carpet and then trodden to death by horses on February 20, 1258. The Al-Musta'sim family was also executed, with the lone exceptions of his youngest son and a daughter who were sent to Mongolia to be slaves in the harem of Hulagu.
Later in the 1280s, the surviving son of Al-Musta'sim, moved to Bastak, South Persia, where Bastak and many other small Sunni villages pledged loyalty to the Abbasid. The rulers of Shiraz at the time, the Atabak, gave him protection to pass through their lands as he escaped from the Moghols. Later on the Abbasids took permission from Atabak to establish a state of their own and rule Bastak and the surrounding villages and islands. It was said that a few Hashimites (descendants of Prophet Mohammed) moved to Bastak from Khonj where they had settled after leaving Iraq towards Persia. The Abbasids carried on the expansion of Bastak's rule until it included more than 60 villages and many islands in the Persian Gulf. Many alliances were formed between the Bastaki rulers and the Arab rulers The title Abbasid was changed to Khan (title) (Persian: خان , Arabic: الحاكم), a Persian translation for a sovereign or military ruler, and also has equivalent meanings such as commander or leader. Al Khan are also called Bastakis, from Bastak.