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n. - A historical region of central Asia that was a center for trade between the East and the West.

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  • The regional rebellion referenced is that of Muhammad Ishaq Khan in Turkistan from 1888 to 1890, for which see Faiz Muhammad, vol. III, pp. 575 – 625, with digressions. back
  • Turkistan, which is now called the Xinjiang province of China.
  • The latest issue of a journal entitled Turkistan al-Muslimah (Muslim Turkistan) was recently published by a jihadi web forum (muslm. net, March 26).
  • An American translator had emigrated from East Turkistan, China, when she was 18.
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