Buraq Hajib established a small portion of the Sinitic Central Asian Qara Khitay state, also known as the Khitan

Khitan people

thumb|250px|Khitans [[Eagle hunting|using eagles to hunt]], painted during the Chinese [[Song Dynasty]].The Khitan people , or Khitai, Kitan, or Kidan, were a nomadic Mongolic people, originally located at Mongolia and Manchuria from the 4th century...

 Khanate

Khanate

Khanate, or Chanat, is a Turco-Mongol-originated word used to describe a political entity ruled by a Khan. In modern Turkish, the word used is kağanlık, and in modern Azeri of the republic of Azerbaijan, xanlıq. In Mongolian the word khanlig is used, as in "Khereidiin Khanlig" meaning the Khanate...

, in the southern Persian

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

 province of Kirman during the early 13th century.

The Khitan in northern China

China

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 were known as خطا in Arabic (Khata) and are mentioned by Muslim

Muslim

A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...

 chroniclers as they initially fought with Muslims before later converting to Islam

Islam

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 from Tantric Buddhism. After the destruction of the Qara Khitay realm by the Mongols under Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan , born Temujin and occasionally known by his temple name Taizu , was the founder and Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death....

 in 1218, the majority of the Qara Khitay resumed their nomadic life. Only a small part of the population under Buraq Hajib shifted to urban life and established a local dynasty in the Persian province of Kirman. Buraq submitted to the Mongol Empire

Mongol Empire

The Mongol Empire , initially named as Greater Mongol State was a great empire during the 13th and 14th centuries...

 in 1229 after slaughtering the prince of Khorazmi dynasty. The Mongol Ilkhanid ruler Öljeitü (r.1304-1316) ended the Khitan dynasty in 1306.