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|name = Yousuf Shah Chak<br>{{nq|یُوسف شاہ چک}}<br />
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|succession = Emperor of Kashmir<br />
|reign =1579 – 1586<br />
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|predecessor = [[Ali Shah Chak]]<br />
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|successor = [[Yakub Shah Chak]]<br />
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|death_date =1592<br />
|death_place = [[Bihar]]<br />
|spouse= [[Habba Khatoon]]<br />
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|house = [[Chak Dynasty]]<br />
|father = [[Ali Shah Chak]]<br />
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|religion = [[Shia Muslim]] <br />
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|place of burial =[[Biswak]], [[Bihar]]<br />
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'''Yousuf Shah Chak''' (Urdu; {{nq|یُوسف شاہ چک}}) was a ruler of [[Kashmir]]. He was successor of his father [[Ali Shah Chak]] and ruled [[Kashmir]] from 1579 to 1586 AD. <br />
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Yousuf Shah Chak the last independent Muslim ruler of the Valley. The Chaks suffered sectarian divisions with the main Sunni segment of the tribe led by Regi Chak and Shams Chak, and Nurbakhshiya Sufis, that some have described as an offshoot of Shiism. The Chaks were recent converts to Islam during this period and maintained names such as Shankar, Pandu, Lankar, etc. While smaller in number, the Nurbakshiya Sufi Chaks included the leaning of Ghazi Shah Chak, Ali Shah Chak, and the Yousuf Shah Chak. They were formidable and ferocious fighters of huge structure and soundly defeated the great Mughal Emperor [[Akbar]] twice and that too with a much smaller army. Some disgruntled Kashmiri nobles were often pushing Akbar to annex Kashmir.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}}<br />
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Yousuf Shah Chak sought refuge in [[Sialkot]],<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2U9uAAAAMAAJ&q=sialkot+jehangir&dq=sialkot+jehangir&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwit1Obso4TZAhVV0GMKHRCKA6Q4ChDoAQg0MAM|title=The Kachhwahas under Akbar and Jahangir|last=Khan|first=Refaqat Ali|date=1976|publisher=Kitab Pub. House|language=en}}</ref> before he was brought to Delhi for talks with Akbar. Akbar's forces betrayed Yousuf, and imprisoned him for the rest of his life. It is narrated that [[Habba Khatoon]], Yousuf's love interest and a well known poetess of Kashmir, had opposed Yousuf's travel to Delhi, for she sensed Akbar's offer as a bait. She later made mentions of this in her writings. Chaks successfully resisted the attempts of [[Babur]] and [[Humayun]] to annex Kashmir.<ref>Tareekh Kashmir Page No. 103 Book Published by Mosvi Publishers</ref>{{primary-source-inline|date=December 2019}}<br />
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Yousuf was succeeded by his son [[Yakub Shah Chak]] (a great warrior as well) who ruled Kashmir for three years until 1589 AD, when it was annexed to [[Mughal Empire]] by [[Akbar]].<br />
Tomb of Kashmir's last Muslim ruler lies in ruins at Nalanda and his tomb is in disrepair and unprotected.<br />
Yousuf was exiled to [[Bengal]] and later shifted to [[Bihar]] where he died. His grave remains in Bihar while [[Habba Khatoon]]'s lies in Athwajan, [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu and Kashmir]].<ref name="Yousuf Shah">{{cite book | title=Epilogue, Vol 4, Issue 1| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L2l56GzQ7d0C&pg=PA25&dq=yosuf+shah+chak&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jSreVOGPA8zn8AWzmoC4Dw&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=yosuf%20shah%20chak&f=false|page=25,26 | publisher=Epilogue -Jammu Kashmir}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2013/Feb/19/from-bihar-to-tihar-7.asp|title=From Bihar to Tihar|publisher=greaterkashmir.com|access-date=2015-02-13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Muslim Kashmir|last=Hasnain|first=Fida Muhammad|publisher=Gulshan Books|location=Kashmir|pages=1}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Sultans of Kashmir]]<br />
[[Category:16th-century people]]<br />
[[Category:Kashmiri poets]]</div>>Peter Ormond