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Qarakhanids Convert to Islam.
In: Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2022-09-01, S. 3
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During the ninth century, and coinciding with the decline in authority of the Tang Dynasty (T’ang; 618-907), in the region now known as Xinjiang (Sinkiang), various Turkish peoples—Karluk, Yaghma, and Chighil—began to coalesce around a ruling family, known to modern scholars as the Qarakhanids (Karakhanids), who themselves may have been descended from one of the prominent clans among the Karluk. Like previous Eastern Turkish tribal confederacies, such as the Uighurs (744-840), Kirghiz, and Karluk, the majority of Qarakhanids were pastoral nomads practicing a shamanism tinged in the oases by Buddhism, Nestorian Christianity, and Manichaeanism. The earliest history of the Qarakhanids is unrecorded, but between 992 and 1211, they ruled a vast swathe of territory, comprising the Tarim Basin (Xinjiang, China), the western Tian Shan, Semirechye (southeastern Kazakhstan), the Farghana valley (Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan), and Transoxiana (Uzbekistan/Kazakhstan). Their headquarters were at Balasaghun in the Chu River Valley, but following their conversion to Islam, Kashgar increasingly served as a religious and cultural center.
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Qarakhanids Convert to Islam.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Hambly, Gavin R. G. ; Riedinger, Edward A. |
Zeitschrift: | Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2022-09-01, S. 3 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2022 |
Medientyp: | Nachschlagewerk |
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