(kashgar) uyghur muslims in China

[bir*zat]

Kashgar is one of the most exotic cities of the world. Throughout recorded history, all branches of the Silk road passed through Kashgar. This great oasis (elevation about 4000 ft) is bounded on the north, west and south by high mountains and on the east by the Taklamakan, one of the most desolate deserts in the world. More than 90% of the people in Kashgar are Uighurs, Turkish-speaking descendents of a great empire that extended throughout Mongolia and Chinese Turkestan during the 8th and 9th centuries. At that time the Uighurs were Buddhists, Nestorian Christians, and Manicheists. They became Muslims when conquered by the Karakhanids in the 10th C.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Kashgar-mezquita-id-kah-d01.jpg/800px-Kashgar-mezquita-id-kah-d01.jpg

The great Mosque at Kashgar - Idkah Mosque

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~rkanda/GPS_TienShan2006/Figures_Images/Kashgar_IdkahMosque.jpg

http://eos.photonik.tuwien.ac.at/china/xinjiang/Kashgar_Sunday_market.jpg

http://www.federationofpoets.com/elka2Kashgar.JPG

http://www.theorientalcaravan.com/images/silk_road/Uighur_man_Kashgar_Market2.jpg


http://www.nox.cz/gallery/pics/cestopis/04kashgar/01-kashgar.jpg


http://www.accesschinatours.com/itineraries/2007/tours/photo/Kashgar-Jewery-seller.gif

http://www.warriortours.com/china-photos/kashgar/xinjiang.kashgar.bazaar.50012578w.jpg

http://www.wildernesstravel.com/itins/maps/silkroad_map.jpg

http://www.asia.msu.edu/Graphics/menpraying.jpg


http://images.china.cn/site1000/20060804/0050bae422a8063d449602.jpg

http://paraset.net/resim/tarix/nawai.jpg

http://www.turpantours.com/Common/eWebEditor/UploadFile/2006424221241978.jpg

uyghur foods

http://www.wiu.edu/users/mua/guxnan.jpg
Kabab and Nan

http://www.wiu.edu/users/mua/kaobaozi.jpg
Sumsa (Delicious lamb pies baked using a special brick oven.)

http://www.wiu.edu/users/mua/langmen.jpg
Lahman (Specially handmade noodles toped with stir-fried lamb and vegetables)

http://www.wiu.edu/users/mua/sumsa.jpg
Parmuda (Baked pies with lamb, carrots, and onion inside.)

http://www.wiu.edu/users/mua/nang.jpg
Nan (Very crispy, tasty, and nutty baked bread using seasame seeds, butter, milk, vegetable oil, salt, and sugar.)

http://www.wiu.edu/users/mua/youtazi.jpg
Youtazi (Steamed multilayer bread.)

http://www.wiu.edu/users/mua/kaoyang.jpg
Roasted Whole Lamb (using that special brick oven)

http://www.wiu.edu/users/mua/tohax.jpg
Girda Nan (Baked bread )

http://photocdn.sohu.com/20060927/Img245556028.jpg
polo

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en-commons/thumb/0/01/300px-Kebab.jpg
kabab

[Allahu_Hassbi]

:salam2:birzat!
Lovely pics . .
love seeing marks of Islam all around the world.
Jazak Allah for sharing these . . .

:wasalam:

[Optimist]

Masha'Allah v.beautiful pictures. Thank you very much indeed.

So they have been muslims for 1000 years !! wow, that's longer than Turkey :)

Always entertain us with these information. Jazak Allah khairan