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Qipchaq (Cumans)

القبجاق

The Qipchaq (Cumans) were nomadic Turkic tribes of the steppes beyond the Oxus and the Caucasus; Yaqut's Mujam mentions them in the Mongol irruption that killed the Qipchaq, and al-Umari's Masalik al-Absar surveys their land and steppe 1 2.

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At a glance

Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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Race, colour and ethnicity

Overview

The Qipchaq were nomadic Turkic tribes of the steppes beyond the Oxus and the Caucasus, to whom the "Qipchaq tongue" and the Qipchaq element of Mamluk Egypt are traced 1 2.

In the sources

Yaqut mentions the Qipchaq in the Mongol irruption through Derbent, their sweep over Khazar lands and the killing of the Qipchaq; al-Umari's Masalik al-Absar surveys a mountain in the Qipchaq steppe and their land 1 2.

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Sources

  1. Mu'jam al-buldan (Yaqut al-Hamawi), Cairo 1907
  2. Masalik al-absar fi mamalik al-amsar — al-Umari (1924 printing)
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islam.museum contributors. “Qipchaq (Cumans)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/group/qibjaq/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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General kinship among peoples

Muhammad Farid Wajdi's reading of the Qur'anic principle that God made people into peoples and tribes so that they might know one another, and that honour before God lies in taqwa rather than lineage. He holds that this principle struck tribal pride at its root and that Islam founded a universal kinship. The book calls the pre-Islamic world a time of constant conflict. The view is the author's and is attributed as such, and its comparisons are his own assertions.