Kāšġarī, Muḥammad Ṣādiq

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In remembrance of the saints: the rise and fall of an Inner Asian Sufi dynasty

by Kāšġarī, Muḥammad Ṣādiq

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"In the first half of the eighteenth century, members of the Naqshbandi Sufi dynasty vied for influence in the Tarim Basin, part of present-day Xinjiang. In the 1750s, the collapse of the Junghar Mongol state gave one branch of this family an opportunity to assert their independ…