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A HISTORY OF INNER ASIA

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166 A history of Inner Asia<br />

religious personalites with their tombs nearby – was an ancient city with<br />

a recurrent political role.It was thither that in the 1530s the aforementioned<br />

Makhdum-i Azam sent from Bukhara his emissaries who founded<br />

a dervish lodge and a dynasty of religious leaders who would in due<br />

course usurp temporal power from the Chaghatayids themselves.

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