Sayed

Sayyid

Sayyid is an honorific title, it denotes males accepted as descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammad through his grandsons, Hasan ibn Ali and Husain ibn Ali, sons of the prophet's daughter Fatima Zahra and his son-in-law Ali ibn Abi Talib.Daughters of sayyids are given the titles Sayyida,...

 Borhan khan (1624-nearby 1680) was a khan

Khan (title)

Khan is an originally Altaic and subsequently Central Asian title for a sovereign or military ruler, widely used by medieval nomadic Turko-Mongol tribes living to the north of China. 'Khan' is also seen as a title in the Xianbei confederation for their chief between 283 and 289...

 of Qasim Khanate

Qasim Khanate

Qasim Khanate or Kingdom of Qasim was a Tatar territorial formation , vassal of Russia, which existed from 1452 till 1681 in the territory of modern Ryazan Oblast in Russia with its capital Kasimov, in the middle stream of the Oka River...

 in 1627-1679. He was a son of Arslanghali

Arslanghali

Arslanghali khan was a khan of the Qasim Khanate from 1614 to 1624, and a son of Ghali khan and a grandson of Kuchum. In the time of Troubles he with his father struggled against False Tsars. Supporting Mikhail Romanov, he became a khan in the vassal Qasim Khanate, but his rule was limited and...

 and Fatima Soltan

Fatima Soltan

Fatima Soltan was the last khanbika of Qasim Khanate . She was a daughter of Aqmoxammad Shahqol Sayed and a wife of Arslanghali khan. After the death of her husband in 1627 Russian tsar Mikhail Romanov appointed her and her father Aqmoxammad as regents of her three-year-old son Sayed Borhan...

. After the death of his father he was crowned as a khan of Qasim. Sayed Borhan's regents were Fatima Soltan and her father Aqmoxammad Shahqol sayed. During the reign of Sayed Borhan khanate was totally placed under Moscow control, Russian authorities enforced Christianization

Christianization

The historical phenomenon of Christianization is the conversion of individuals to Christianity or the conversion of entire peoples at once...

. In 1679 Sayed Borhan abdicated and was baptized as Vasili.