Shah-Ali (1505-1567) was Khan of the Qasim Khanate from 1516 to 1519 (succeeding Shaykh Allahyar and preceding Dzhan-Ali of Kazan) and from 1535 to 1567 (succeeding Dzhan-Ali and preceding Simeon Bekbulatovich) and Khan of the Kazan Khanate from 1518 to 1521 (succeeding Moxammadamin of Kazan and preceding Sahib I Giray), in 1546 (interrupting Safa Giray of Kazan's reigns), and from 1551 to 1552 (succeeding Utameshgaray of Kazan and preceding Yadegar Mokhammad of Kazan).
Biography[]
Shah-Ali was born in 1505, the son of Qasim Khan. He became Khan of Qasim in 1516 and moved to Kazan in 1519 on the demise of Ulugh Muhammad's dynasty. He reigned as a Russian puppet, but his violence towards his opponents and Russian vassalage led his subjects to invite Sahib I Giray to seize power in 1521. Shah-Ali was exiled in Russia, and he was exiled by the Russians to Belozersk from 1533 to 1535 after he was accused of intrigue with Kazan. In 1546, he returned to ruling over Kazan as a Russian puppet, but his 3,000 soldiers were massacred in an uprising and he was effectively made a prisoner in hi sown palace. He later escaped in 1546, and Safa Giray of Kazan returned to power. He returned to rule over Qasim from 1535 to 1567, and he participated in the Russian conquest of Kazan in 1552 and as commander of the Russian vangaurd during the Livonian War. He died in 1567.