EPITOME 
OF THE 
MEMOIRS OF THE KHOJAS. 
Makhdum-i-Azam, a very holy man, spread religion from Mecca to 
China. His great grand-father, Sayyid Kamalu-d-Dm Majnun (a descend¬ 
ant in the seventeenth generation from the Prophet) lived at Medina and 
emigrated to Uz (or Uzkand) in Farghana. At that time Sultan Iliq 
Mazi, one of seven kings, was ruler of Utrar, Kasan, Farghana, Uzkand 
and Usjh 1 . In consequence of a dream the Sultan married his daughter to 
Sayyid Kamalu-d-Dm. He returned with his wife to Medina, where after 
his death, a son named Sayyid Burhanu-d-Din Kilic was born to him, who 
returning, succeeded his maternal grand-father, Ilik Mazi, on the throne of 
Uz. After a short time he gave up his government and became a devotee, 
retiring for the purpose to Khojand. With whomsoever he was angry that 
person was sure to die. A certain other holy man once came to ask him the 
reason for this. On approaching the Sayyid, he fell into a trance and saw, 
hanging from the roof, a naked sword. Flies were constantly striking 
against its edge and being cut in two. When he returned to his senses, the 
Sayyid said to him : “ Friend, whose fault is it: the sword’s or the flies’? ” 
1 Mr. Shaw notes here that Ilik Mazi was a grandson or descendant of Sultan 
Satuk Bughra. Dr. Bellew in his remarks on the TazTcira-i-Bu gh ra Khan infers 
him to be identical with Satuk Bughra. but this is probably incorrect. Dr. 
Bretschneider, on the authority of the Kamilu-t-tawarikh of Ibnu-l-Asir, makes 
one Ilik, or Ilak, the successor of Satuk, but does not mention the relationship; and 
it is uncertain whether he refers to the same person as Ilik Mazi. Ibnu-1-Asir 
speaks of him as subduing the Samani dynasty in Transoxiana in 1008 A. D. f while 
Satuk Bughra is recorded, in the Tazkira, to have died only in 429 H.—or 1037 —8 
A. D. Th us it is quite uncertain to whom the text refers. The dynasty of the Bughra 
Kh ans was one of original Turks, or Uigurs, who had their capitals at T alasaghun 
and Kashghar, and flourished chiefly in the 10th, 11th and 12th centimes. They 
are known sometimes as the “ Kara Kh ans ”, but more usually as the “ Ilak Kh ans ” 
—a circumstance which would point to the word Hale being something more than 
the name of a single individual, and to the probability of its having been some general 
name or title. Mr. Stanley Lane-Poole says, “ the history of these Kh ans is very 
meagrely recorded.” And it is certain that what little information we have, is obscure 
and contradictory. It may be added, with reference to what follows in the text, 
that no such name as Burhanu-d-Din is to be found in any of the lists of Ilak Kh ans 
(See Shaw’s Turlci Grammar p. 334 ; Bellew in Yarqand Report pp. 125-6; 
Bretschneider’s Mediaeval Researches, I, pp. 252-8; and Lane-Poole’s Muhammadan 
Dynasties p. 134). 
