Genealogy of Mikail Bashtu Ibn Shams Tebir

his son was Abdallah, a mullah in the Northern Dagestan

Abdallah started a translation of all official documents of the kingdom from the old Bulgarian alphabet "kunig" (aka "Runic" script) to the Arabic script.

His son was Shams, a mullah in the Kara Bulgar, i.e. in the Western Bulgaria

Abdallah and Shams made a big contribution to the spread of Islam among the western Bulgars, and they were renown theologians.

His son was Mikail Ibn Shams (ca 820 - 900), from Bashtu (modern Kyiv) and a Tebir (secretary), hence his name Mikail Bashtu Ibn Shams Tebir

His son was Abdallah, a mullah, theologian, historian. He was the author of the book "Khazar History" and a well-known poem "Kisekbash kitaby". Mullah Abdallah went a few times to the city of Bagdad, trying to convince the Caliph to recognize the Itil Bulgaria as a Muslim state. In the 921 he managed to attain that a Great embassy of the Caliph was sent to the Itil Bulgaria, with which he returned to the Bulgaria in the 922.

Mikail Bashtu was a mullah, theologian, chichan (poet) and historian. Mikail Bashtu earned respect and long remembrance of the Bulgars for his life-long service.

819 AD (203 A.H.) The father of Mikail Bashtu, mullah Shams, who later adopted the name Bashtu and is known in the Moslem world as Shams Tebir or Shams Bashtu, for the first time converted to Islam a ruler of the Kara Bulgarian state, Kan Urus Ugyr Aydar (819-855),.

835 (220 A.H.) Mikail Bashtu is as a secretary in the office of Kara Bulgarian Kan Urus Ugyr Aydar (819-855), he completed a translation, started by his grandfather Abdallah, of all official documents of the kingdom from the old Bulgarian alphabet "kunig" to the Arabic script.

835 (220 A.H.) Michail Bashtu is a mullah in the city of Kyiv

835 (220 A.H.) From the hands of mullah Michail Bashtu a most numerous and powerful Sabanian clan Baryn in the Dniepr basin accepted Islam.

835 (220 A.H.) Michael Bashtu examined texts written in "samra", the original "runic" type script that became a basis for Türkic alphabet and picked out the ancient words that could be used by mullahs in speeches and notes. A century later, Ahmed ibn Fadlan (aka Bakir) left that decision to stand, but forbade the Moslems to use "samra".

840 (225 A.H.)  Mikail Bashtu managed a first census of the Kara Bulgar population. It turned out that in the Internal Kara Bulgar lived 500 thousand people, of them 50 thousand were Bulgars. In the Balyn (Northeast Rus, Volynia), which was a tribute dependency of the  Kara Bulgar, lived 600 thousand people. In the External Kara Bulgar and in the Princedom Bulgar of the Kara Bulgar lived 173 thousand taxpayers. The tax rate in the Kara Bulgar was a cost of one marten pelt per year from a household.

855 (240 A.H.) Gabdulla Djilki was raised to the Bulgarian throne after the Aydar's death, supported mainly by the Muslim nobles. That displeased the Tengrian part of the Bulgarian nobles, who during Aydar's reign conceded a significant part of their power to the Bulgarian Muslim nobles. The younger brother of Djilka, Lachyn (Rürik for Anchians), headed dissatisfied Tengrians and started a revolt against Gabdulla. The Aydar's faithful ally Byzantium,  and Khazaria supported the Tengrian Lachyn in a civil war. In the beginning Gabdulla was victorious over Lachyn and his Khazarian allies.

 860 (245 A.H.) Bulgarian fleet consisting of the Anchians' ships under command of the head of the Anchians Djir and Scandinavian Varyag () mercenaries under Askold ravaged the palisades of the Byzantium capital.

 864 (249 A.H.) Lachyn with his allies suddenly attacked Gabdulla Djilki in his summer residence (batavyl) Khorysdan (nowadays - Putivl). Djilki retreats to the Bulgarian capital Bashtu, but the Kyivans, led by Askold, tied up Djir, and announced to Djilki: 'We shall not let you into the capital, Kan,  until you resolve in the field your dispute with your brother Lachyn about the ascendancy'. Gabdulla Djilki beat off the attack by Lachyn, and expelled Askold from Bashtu.

865 (250 A.H.) Aggravated by the betrayal of the Kyivans, Djilki moved the capital of the Bulgarian state from Kyiv to Bulgar, and moved there a part of the Moslem Kara Bulgars. The Ukraine was split into two allodial (autonomous) Beyliks: a Kyiv Beylik (the right-bank part of the Ukraine) and a Kara-Bulgarian (the left-bank part of the Ukraine). Anchian Bek Djir was appointed the head of the Kyiv Beylik, and a senior son of Gabdulla Bek Almysh Djafar was appointed the head of the Kara-Bulgarian Beylik.

865 (250 A.H.) Michail Bashtu is a mullah in the city of Bulgar

865-882 (250 A.H.-268 A.H.) Mikail Bashtu wrote the poem "Shang kyzy dastany" (Poem of the Shan daughter). Mikail Bashtu reworked the Ancient Bulgarian myths and legends, including the songs of Kuban, composed in the legend "Shan Talgau" written by his famous predecessor, Attila's pra-pra-grandson Boyan-Chelbir Sandugach (Gr.  Sindilh probably from Shan Talgau, Slav. Solovey, ruled 535-590; for etymology of Sogd. word see A.Dybo 2007 “Lingivistical Contacts Of Early Turks” ). In the Mikail Bashtu's poem the contents of the old Bulgar dastan about the feats of three co-fraterns-bogatyrs (elbirs) were fused with new themes. The poem was learned by heart by many, and it became a part of the national wedding ritual.

865-900 (250 A.H.-286 A.H.) After relocating with Kan Djilki to the Middle Itil region, mullah Bashtu was actively spreading Islam in the Itil Bulgaria, and he organized elementary schools at the mosques, called mektebe. 42 mektebes were opened in the 865-882, during rule of Kan Djilki, due to the mullah Bashtu's labors. In the period from 882 to 900 were opened another 180 mektebes. In all, in 35 years Mikail Bashtu established 222 mektebes. The children were taught to read and write, read hadises, the religious books, and learnt by hart some ayats, small fragments from Koran..

865-900 (250 A.H.) Mikail Bashtu organized a prospecting for the deposits of iron, gold, silver, copper, coal and jewels in the Ural mountains.

865-900 (250 A.H.-286 A.H.) Mikail Bashtu was instrumental in inducing, as their Vizier, the Kans Djilki and Almysh to patronize the trade, by persuading them that their kingdom "will be as strong, as strong would be the trade". On the advice of Mikail Bashtu they subordinated the northern peoples and equipped and secured the trading roads which were criss-crossing Bulgaria.

890 (276 A.H.) Mikail Bashtu organized a Bulgarian coin mint in the Bulgar city.

895 (281 A.H.) Almysh was raised to the Bulgarian throne after the Djilki's death and became a Kan of Itil Bulgaria

900 (286 A.H.) Mikail Bashtu died during a trip to the Urals, in a night storm on the Kama near the city Yar Chally, the present Naberejnye Chelny, when the vessel where Mikail was spending a night capsized, and he drowned. Mikail Bashtu left a famous son, Abdallah ibn Bashtu, who was a mullah, theologian, historian, the author of the book "Khazar History", sited by the Moslem writers. A few times Mullah Abdallah went to Bagdad, to convince the Caliph to recognize Itil Bulgaria as a Muslim state. In the 921 he succeeded to have a Great embassy of the Caliph sent to the Itil Bulgaria, and Bulgaria recognized as a Muslim state. Abdallah ibn Bashtu was a head of the Moslems in the Itil Bulgaria, and a Vizier of Kan Almysh.