Ikhnurpaz Ayonath


 * This name follows Ghur naming conventions. Ikhnurpaz is the family name, Ayonath is the given name and Aloqnur is the father's name.

Aylhaghatahirr Ikhnurpaz Ayonath zez Aloqnur (3 January 848 - 24 August 921) was a Ghur politician, intellectual, theologist and political theorist credited for being the founder of the modern Ghur Republic. He served as the Republic's first President from its foundation in 907 until his death in 921.

Early life
Ikhnurpaz Ayonath was born to a large family of low resources in the small fishing town of Dhardaghadha, Western Ordoghur. His father, Ikhnurpaz Aloqnur, had a small business and his mother, Alimdha, was a former nun at a Matriarchist Naghuzadha Temple. Ayonath was the only of his seven siblings to attend to school. Since there were no education-related institutions in his home town, he had to move to the neighboring town of Marrutokh to see classes at a small school.

After graduating from secondary education, Ikhnurpaz received a scholarship for the Zatharun University at Ordoghaz, where he graduated with a degree on theology in 873, aged 25.

Librarian in Itumghur and rebel
After graduating he arrived to a permanent post at the Library of the Aytahirr Nuyadh Imperial University in Itumghur where he studied on political theory and the works of the Tharabori anarchist Dardio Brachevorie. Ikhnurpaz started to hold clandestine meetings in the basements of the Imperial Library with other intellectuals who had similar ideas to his.

With the failed Spring Revolution of 878, Ikhnurpaz created ties to the Imperial Military, and he became involved in the 882 coup d'état. He began to publicly rally for the dissolution of the Confederation and the creation of a stronger, unified Ghur state. He was persecuted by the state and finally imprisoned in 889. In 894 Ikhnurpaz was released alongside a hundred other political prisoners, and he went back to his campaigning. Making use of the general people's discontent after the Confederation's erratic foreign policies and the "Almost War" of 899, Ikhnurpaz created the Republican Congress, a pro-republic political organisation that appealed to the intellectuals of the Universities and the military alike.

The Confederal government declared the Republican Congress an illegal organisation and many of its members were persecuted, tortured and killed in what has been known as the Terror. In 903, facing pressure from Republican Congress militants and the collective abdication of several Tahirrs in Western and Southern provinces, the central Confederal government agreed to lay down terms with the Congress, but the talks reached nowhere. In 905 the Uzghur Tahirate declared independence from the Confederation and after a short military conflict and diplomacy conducted through Allabor, the Uzghur were granted its secession rights. The Talih Tahirate followed suit and they were granted independence in 906 without bloodshed.

Soon after the Uzghur Republic was created, the Supreme Protector of the Confederation, Dhardayadd Golenir, killed himself in his palace of Zathamodul, leaving no will behind. Lacking a proper "Vice-Protector", the Confederal Council was unable to decide who would succeed Dhardayadd and chaos reigned in the government. Seizing the opportunity, Ikhnurpaz called the military to remove the Confederal Council from power and instituted a provisional government consisting of a small Directory of ten people. In 907 the Congress at Ordoghaz was held, and it was decided the provinces of Itumghur, Nurayadd, Uzordolih, Pazlih, Netalih and Ordoghur would form the Ghur Republic.

Ikhnurpaz was elected President of the Ghur Republic at the Congress, a decision that was ratified by the people in 908 in the first popular suffrage held in the history of Ghur.