Tariqas were brought to China in the 17th century by Ma Laichi and other Chinese Sufis who had studied in Mecca and Yemen, and had also been influenced by spiritual descendants of the Kashgarian Sufi master Afaq Khoja.

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It is built around the mausoleum of Ma Tai Baba (" The Great Father Ma ", 1632 – 1709 ), a disciple of Khoja Afaq and the teacher of Ma Laichi.

The only paper that published Manto's articles regularly for quite some time was Daily Afaq, for which he wrote some of his well known sketches.

Manto's sketch of Muhammad Ali Jinnah was also first published in Afaq under the title Mera Sahib.

The largest among these factions is MQM Haqiqi (), which was formed by Afaq Ahmad and Amir Khan.

The exiled ruler Afaq of the White Mountain asked the Dalai Lama for military assistance in 1677.

By the request of the latter, Galdan overthrew the Naqshbandu Black Mountain and installed Afaq as his client ruler there.

* Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasavi

* Kumul / Hami, China The Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasavi in the town of Hazrat-e Turkestan.

Prominent examples of Timurid domes: from Turkestan's Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, left, and from Samarkand's Gur-i Amir, right.

The landmark architectural and artistic solutions realized in the erection of the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi were immediately utilized in other building endeavors, such as contemporary works in Samarkand, Herat, Meshed, Khargird, Tayabad, Baku and Tabriz.

Up to contemporary times, the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi has remained an object of pilgrimage for Kazakh Muslims.

The continuance of the Kazakh nation and Central Asian Islamic faith in modern times are testaments to the historical and cultural importance of Turkestan, with the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi at its center.

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The Dome of Soltaniyeh paved the way for more daring Iranian-style cupola constructions in the Muslim world, such as the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasavi and the Taj Mahal.

Abadeh historical monuments include Emirate Kolah Farangi, Tymcheh Sarafyan and Khaje tomb, located in the Khoja mountains.

When Jahangir Khoja seized Kashgar in 1826 he captured several Chinese, who were taken to Kokand and sold.

In 1755, the Qianlong Emperor sent an army to put down a Khoja rebellion in Kashgar.

Although Siddiq Beg's Kyrgyz had already taken the Muslim town of Kashgar by the time Buzurg Khoja and Yaqub Beg arrived, he had to allow the popular khoja to settle in the former governor's residence ( the urda ).

Sabit Damolla freed for Khoja Niyaz his own Palace in the old city of Kashgar, that was established in the former Yamen or residence of the head of Chinese administration of Southern Xinjiang, and asked to form a new Government.

Among first persons, who were awarded this medal, was Vice-Chairman of Xinjiang Government Khoja Niyaz ( 1934 – 1937 ) and Divisional General, Commander-in-Chief of 6th Uyghur Division, Deputy Chief of Kashgar Military Region Mahmut Muhiti ( 1934 – 1937 ).

Although accounts vary as to some details, the basic story amongst Han Chinese recounts the discovery by the Qianlong Emperor of an Uyghur girl named Iparhan, granddaughter of Apak Khoja, a local leader in the oasis city of Kashgar.

Before a rebellion had broken out in May, 1826, Jahangir Khoja managed to flee to Kashgar from Kokand ( where he had been held in prison in accordance with a secret agreement, concluded between the Khanate of Kokand and Qing dynasty China, concerning descendants of Appak khoja ),< ref >< sub > This agreement, according to M. Kutlukov, was concluded first by the Kokand ruler Irdana Biy ( 1751-1770 ) as soon as the Qings became aware of Khoja Sarymsak ( an Ak Taghlik who was the only person among Appak Khoja's descendants to survive the 1757-1759 Qing invasion of Kashgaria ), who, via Kabul and Badakhshan, had arrived in Kokand and had settled there.

After appearing in Kashgar with only several hundreds of his followers he then quickly increased his force by volunteers, and within several months he collected under his banner about 200, 000 troops ,< ref >< sub > Among volunteers in Jahangir's Army were a lot of ghalchas ( mountain Tajiks ), whose tight black costume gave rise to the rumours in Siberia about presence of Europeans among Jahangir's troops, those rumours were also contributed by Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, that being upset of the opportunity, might have gained by British forces in India due to this rebellion, reported of 13 British Body Guards of Jahangir Khoja, 7 of them followed him wherever he goes all the time.

Jahangir's capture was affair of the former Hakim of Kashgar Ishak Khoja, who sent false Letter to Jahangir, notifying him of departure of main body of Qing troops and inviting him to Kashgar to regain power.

From Kokand, Jahangir Khoja, with the support of Tajiks, Kyrgyz, and White Mountain fighters seized Kashgar in 1826 he captured several hundred Chinese, who were taken to the Kokand slave markets.

He slew a large portion and 700 horses were taken Place was marked by 200 heads of raiders on Kotal of Khoja Jarghatu and Saki gave no more trouble during Sultan Shah's lifetime This Chief built a fortress at Mashad in which he settled 600 families He made a rest house for travelers at Daryun.

He was succeeded by his son Khoja or Hoca, who was in turn succeeded by his son Mar.

He then deposed his former master, the Naqshbandi shaykh Buzurg Khan ( Busurg Khan ) ( the only survived son of Jahangir Khoja ) of the White Mountain, in 1867, and declared that he was the Amir.

It was not until the Sultan of Aceh, Sultan Iskandar Muda, sent his warlord, Gocah Pahlawan Laksamana Khoja Bintan, to be the Sultanate of Aceh's representative in Tanah Deli, that the Sultanate of Deli started to grow.

According to the 1866 Khoja Case ( also known as the " Aga Khan Case "), presided over by Justice Sir Joseph Arnould in the High Court of Bombay, and where the Aga Khan III ( grandfather of Aga Khan IV and the 48th Imam ) served as defendant, the Imam was described as "... an incarnation of God ..." to his community of followers.

Despite invading a second time in 1361 and appointing his son Ilyas Khoja as governor of Transoxiana, however, Tughlugh Timur was unable to keep a lasting hold on the region, and the Moghuls were ultimately expelled by Amir Husayn and Timur, who then fought amongst themselves for control of Transoxiana.

Chagatayid rule in Moghulistan was temporarily interrupted by the coup of the Dughlat amir Qamar ud-Din, who likely killed Ilyas Khoja and several other Chagatayids.

Khojki () or Khojiki was a script used almost exclusively by the Khoja community of parts of South Asia such as Sindh.

Ghulam Ali Allana was born to an Ismaili Khoja family and died in Karachi.

Throughout most of the medieval and early-modern period it was known as Yasi or Shavgar and after the 16th-17th centuries as Turkistan or Hazrat, both of which names derive from the title ' Hazrat-i Turkistan ', which literally means " the Saint ( or Blessed One ) of Turkistan " and refers to Khoja Ahmad Yasavi, the Sufi Shaikh of Turkistan, who lived here during the 11th century CE and is buried in the town.

Neither of the Dungan or Turkic leaders of the rebellion having enough authority in the entire community to become commonly recognized as a leader, the rebels instead choose a person who had not participated in the rebellion, but was known for his spiritual role: Rashidin ( Rashīdīn ) Khoja, a dervish and the custodian of the grave of his ancestor of saintly fame, Arshad-al-Din (?

He was a fine heir of the long family tradition of starting mischief in Kashgaria, being a son of Jahangir Khoja and brother of Wali Khan Khoja.

Khoja Niyaz introduced new state Flag of Republic, so called Kok Bayraq or Blue Banner, that resembled Turkish Flag but with blue background instead of red and replaced old Flag, which was white with blue crescent and star and Shahadah.

Jahanghir Khoja, Jāhangīr Khwāja, or Jihangir Khoja (, ) was a member of the influential East Turkestan Āfāqī khoja clan, who managed to wrest Kashgaria from the Qing Empire's power for a few years in the 1820s.

Burhan ad-Din, a Khoja of the White Mountain faction, was the grandfather of Jahangir.