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Appendix 1 329<br />

istrators whose historical importance may have surpassed that of most<br />

khans.<br />

1.Mahmud Yalavach, fl.1218–54<br />

2.Masud Beg, his son, fl.1239–89<br />

3.Abu Bakr, Masud Beg’s son, fl.1289–98<br />

4.Satilmish, Abu Bakr’s brother, fl.1298–1302.Suyunich, another<br />

brother, fl.1302–?<br />

The Khwajas of Kashgaria (Isenbike Togan, table 29 and pp.<br />

474–76 in Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol.5; A.G.Schwarz, “The Khwajas of<br />

Eastern Turkestan,” Central Asiatic Journal, 20 (1976): 266–96)<br />

The term khwaja (also spelled khvaja, and its more popular form khoja) has<br />

a complex history, multifaceted connotation, and uncertain etymology.<br />

In the case under discussion here, it was an honorific title assumed by<br />

two branches of a family of Naqshbandi dervishes originally from<br />

Transoxania but who from the middle of the sixteenth to the middle of<br />

the eighteenth centuries wielded considerable spiritual, economic and<br />

political power in Kashgaria or Sinkiang’s Altishahr portion<br />

(“Hexapolis” or region of six cities: Kashgar, Yarkand, Khotan, Aksu,<br />

Uch Turfan, and Kucha).<br />

The two branches were descended from the Naqshbandi sufi Ahmad<br />

Kasani, better remembered as Makhdum-i Azam (an honorific title with<br />

Arabic etymology and Persian construction, meaning “The Great<br />

Master” (1462–1543).<br />

(a) the Afaqiya branch (Aqtaghliq or “White Mountain”<br />

Khwajas)<br />

1.Makhdum-i Azam’s son Muhammad Amin called “Ishan-i Kalan”<br />

(an honorific title with Persian and Turki etymology, an approximate<br />

synonym of Makhdum-i Azam; d.1597/8)<br />

2.Muhammad Yusuf (d.ca.1653)<br />

3.Hidayat Allah commonly called Khwaja Afaq or Apaq (d.1694; the<br />

name Afaqi or Afaqiya was coined after this Khwaja)<br />

4.Khan Khwajam Yahya (d.1696)<br />

5.Hasan Bughra Khan (d.1725)<br />

6.Ahmad

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