1902.] 
H. Beveridge —The Khojas of Eastern Turkistan. 
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The Khojas of Eastern Turkistan.—By H. Beveridge, Esq., I.C.S., 
retired. 
[Read August, 1901.] 
Mr. Key Elias remarks in the preface to his account of the Khojas, 
published in the supplement to our Society’s Journal for 1897, that 
Mr. R. B. Shaw appears to have used another book besides Muhammad 
Sadiq’s, but that he has been unable to find it. Had that excellent 
man been alive, he would have been pleased to learn that the missing 
manuscript is almost certainly in the Oxford Indian Institute. It 
appears to be one of two Persian MSS. which were presented to the 
Institute in December 1880 by General Younghusband who is a 
connexion of Mr. Shaw. Both of these MSS. give the genealogy of 
the Khojas and describe the coming of Kamalu-d-din Majnun from 
Medina to Farghana, &c., but the one which best corresponds to the 
“ other book ” of Mr. Shaw is a well-written octavo bearing the Insti¬ 
tute-library number 294. It is called the Anisu-t-talibin (Friend of 
inquirers), and appears to have been written by Shah(P) Mahmud son 
of Mirza Fazil Jaras about 1049 A.H. It is divided into two 
parts, one giving the history of All and sundry Imams and the other 
describing the Khojas. It describes Makhdum-i-A‘azim and gives his 
proper name as Maulana Ahmad Khwajagi Kasani. Compare Mr. Elias’ 
note, p. 5 of the Introduction where he says that the name Ahmad 
Khwaja has evidently been taken by Mr. Shaw from the “ other book,” 
for it is not mentioned by M. Sadiq. 
The other MS. is called Jama-al-Maqamat (collection of assem¬ 
blies) and bears the Institute-library number 309. The author appears 
to be Abu-al-baqa, son of Khwaja Bahau-d-din, and grandson of 
Makhdum A‘azim, and also nephew of Princess Mahim. He appears 
to have resided in Yarkand and to have been in the service of Hazrat 
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Khwaja Jalian. He records the death of a Yulbars Khan and appears 
to have composed his book in the beginning of 1026 A.H., though the 
copy was made in 1030 or 1040. The book is an elaborate biography 
of Makhdum A‘azim and is divided into three chapters. The first gives 
an account of the material and spiritual descent of the Makhdum; the 
second records his sayings, and the third, which is much the longest, 
gives an immense number of his miracles. I could not find that any 
of them were interesting except one relating to Babar, and which gives 
the circumstances under which he composed a quatrain quoted by Abul 
Fazl, and another, the last in the book, which records the reformation 
of an opium-eater of thirty years’ standing. The author says in his 
