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his son was Hazrat Sayyid Burhanu-d-Din ; 
„ „ „ Hazrat Sayyid Jalalu-d-Din; 
„ „ „ Hazrat Makhdum-i-A £ zam; 1 
„ „ „ Hazrat Ishaq Wall; 
„ „ „ Khwaja Shadi; 
„ ,, „ Hazrat Khwaja Abdn-llah; 2 
„ „ „ Hazrat Khwaja Danyal; 
„ ,, ,, Hazrat Ya‘qub (called Khwaja Jahan). ” 
This pedigree, then, whatever it may be worth in point of authenticity, 
shows that the Khojas of Eastern Turkistan were accounted Sayyids, and 
it is to that fraternity that we may regard them as belonging. 
Muhammad Sadiq’s history may be said to open with the life of the 
Khoja known as Hazrat Makhdum-i-A‘zam who was of the twentieth 
generation in descent from the Prophet. Nothing more interesting, 
however, is recorded of him than some disjointed tales of miracles that he 
performed and some brief notices of his wives and children. These have 
mostly been omitted in the Epitome, but it may be remarked here that 
some of them have a certain bearing on the history, for they show how it 
was that at the death of Makhdum-i-A'zam, a division took place among 
the Khojas, which resulted in one party becoming followers of the 
Makhdum’s elder son, called Ishan-i-Kalan, and another attaching them¬ 
selves to his younger son, Ishaq Wall. The party of the Ishan seem to 
have acquired the name of Ak-taghlyq, or White mountaineers, and that of 
Ishaq, Kara-ta^hlyq, or Black mountaineers, but these names had no 
reference to the localities where their adherents lived. All were inhabi¬ 
tants of the lowlands and cities of Eastern Turkistan, but each section 
made allies among the Kirghiz of the neighbouring mountains, and 
apparently subsidised them to fight their party battles. The Kir gh iz 
tribes of the Western Tien Shan ranges, lying to the north of Kashghar, 
were known as the “ White mountaineers,” and those of the Pamir as the 
“ Black mountaineers ” so that the Khojas came to assume the designations 
of their Kir gh iz allies. Though these terms never occur in Muhammad 
Sadiq’s book 3 they were, apparently, in pretty general use, for they are 
found, according to Dr. Bellew, in the Tazkira-i-Hidayat and are 
employed throughout the narrative of Captain Valikhanoff:, who tells us, 
moreover, that they were current at the time when he wrote. 
1 For some remarks on thjs saint, see immediately below ; and for the remainder 
compare the genealogical table, attached. 
3 This name should be TJbaidu-llah. 
8 He uses, sometimes, IshaqI for the party of Ishaq Wall, but has no general 
name for the party of Ishan-i-Kalan. 
