China: The Khotan Amirs: A group of Khotanlik ulama at Khotan in 1933. The Amir Muhammad Amin Bughra is centre front in black robe. The Khotan Amirs were the driving force behind the short-lived Turkish Islamic Republic of Eastern Turkestan (TIRET), a separatist movement in Xinjiang in the early 1930s.

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