Tarikh-i-Rashidi ( History of Rashid ) is a personal memoir combined with a Central Asian history. Mirza Muhammad Haidar devoted this extensive work, written in Kashmir from 1541 to 1546 in two volumes, to contemporary ruler of Kashgaria Abdurashid Khan, son of Sultan Said Khan (descendant of first Moghul Khan Tughluk Timur Khan, grandson of Duwa Khan, great great grandson of Chagatai Khan, second son of Chengiz Khan), founder of Saidiya state in Kashgaria in 1514 with active and decisive support of author's uncle Sayyid Muhammad Mirza. It was translated into English in 1895 by Ney Elias and Edward Denison Ross. Among other events, the Tarikh-i-Rashidi describes the founding of the Kazakh Khanate in 1465 and Muhammad Haidar Dughlat's personal encounter with one of the early Kazakh rulers, namely Kasym Khan.

CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK.
It is divided into two Parts [Daftar].
Part I. — From the beginning of the reign of Tughluk Timur Khan to the time of Abdur Rashid, who is still reigning.
Part II. — Concerning myself and what I have seen and known of the Sultans and Khakans of the Uzbeg, the Chaghatai and others; and, in fact, everything that happened during my lifetime.
I thank God that He has, in His graciousness, made me absolutely independent of the Moghuls. For though the Khakans of that tribe are of my own race, nay, are my own cousins, I received very bad treatment at their hands— a matter of which I shall speak in the Second Par

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