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A HISTORY OF INNER ASIA

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Yar-khoto, former city and archaeological site<br />

near Turfan, 17, 77<br />

yasa, 113<br />

Yasavi, Khwaja Ahmad, a Turkic sufi and<br />

founder of the Yasaviya order of<br />

dervishes, 26<br />

Yasavi zikr, 248<br />

Yasaviya order of dervishes, 26, 37, 141–3<br />

Yasi, also known as Turkistan, a town in<br />

southern Kazakkhstan, 25–7; Ahmad<br />

Yasavi’s mausoleum at, 248<br />

Young Bukharans, 206<br />

Yüan, dynastic name of the Genghisids ruling<br />

China, 111, 320–1<br />

Yunus Khan, a Chaghatayid khan of<br />

Moghulistan, 141<br />

yurt, the tent of nomadic Turks and Mongols,<br />

42–3<br />

Index 369<br />

Yusuf of Balasaghun, author of the Qutadghu<br />

Bilig, 92<br />

Zarafshan, a river in north-western Tajikistan<br />

and central Uzbekistan, 4–5, 25<br />

Zhengish Chokusu, 15; highest mountain in<br />

the Tianshan range on the<br />

Kyrgyz–Sinkiang border<br />

Zhezkazgan, a town in central Kazakhstan,<br />

28<br />

Zhirinovskiy, Vladimir, a Russian nationalist,<br />

285<br />

zikr, a litany performed by sufi dervishes, 37<br />

Ziyad ibn Salih, Arab commander in the<br />

historic victory over the Chinese, 69<br />

ziyarat, devotinal visit to an Islamic shrine or<br />

sacred site, 37, 39<br />

Zoroastrianism, 23, 48–9

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