Musa Sayrami
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Mulla Musa Sayrami was a historian from Xinjiang, known for his account of the events in that region in the 19th century, in particular the Dungan Rebellion of 1864–1877. While the ethnonym Uyghurs, w
Yaqub Beg's gunners' exercises
Chagatai language
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Chagatai, also known as Turki, Eastern Turkic, or Chagatai Turkic, was a Turkic language that was once widely spoken across Central Asia. It remained the shared literary language in the region until t
Lizheng Gate at the Chengde Mountain Resort. The second column from the left is the Chagatai language written in Perso-Arabic Nastaliq script which reads Rawshan Otturādaqi Darwāza.
Late 15th century Chagatai Turkic text in Nastaliq script
A 1553 manuscript copy of Ali-Shir Nava'i’s Chagatai verse translation of the story Shaykh Sanan and the Christian Maiden, which forms part of his mathnawi Lisan al-Tayr, a Turkic adaptation of Mantiq al-Tayr by Attar of Nishapur.