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īshān
Īshān ( chg, ایشان; kk, ишан; ky, эшен; tg, эшон; tt-Cyrl, ишан; tk, işan; ug, ئىشان, label= Uyghur; uz, eshon; ; russian: иша́н; all deriving from Persian 'they') is an honorific title given to Sufi leaders in Central Asia. Quoting Jianping Wang, "In the Sufi doctrine found in E stTurkestan, the ''ishan'' has a divine nature, acting as an intermediary between Muslims and Allah. An ''ishan'' has absolute power in his group, and can nominate his khalifa and hafiz as well as initiating maulid and buwi into the suborder. Usually, an ''ishan'' will have inherited his position from within his family and pass it on to his descendants." List of īshāns * Āfāq Khwāja * Dūkchī Īshān See also * Shaykh Sheikh (pronounced or ; ar, شيخ ' , mostly pronounced , plural ' )—also transliteration of Arabic, transliterated sheekh, sheyikh, shaykh, shayk, shekh, shaik and Shaikh, shak—is an honorific title in the Arabic language. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dūkchī Īshān
Muhammad Ali Madali (also known as Dukchi Eshon in Uzbek language or ''Iyikchi Eshen'' in Kyrgyz) was an īshān of the Naqshbandi Sufi order, who led an 1898 revolt against Russian domination, centred in the town of Andijan (in modern Uzbekistan). Madali, seeking to rid the area of the Russians and restore the formerly independent khanate of Khokand, called for "holy war", and led 2,000 men against the Tsarist Russia. However, his force was blocked outside the city on Andijan by the Russian 20th Line Battalion and defeated. Of those 2,000, 546 were put on trial, and Madali and five of his lieutenants hanged.Edward AllworthCentral Asia, 130 years of Russian dominance: a historical overview Duke University Press, 1994. , Most of the sentences people were Kyrgyz people in the Ferghana valley and mountainous areas in Chatkal, Aksy and Ketmen-Tobe in nowadays Southern Kyrgyzstan. Among them was a prominent poet-improviser and composer Toktogul Satylganov (1864–1933), who w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |