Khwāja or Khoja, a Persian word literally meaning 'master', was used in Central Asia as a title of the descendants of the famous Central Asia

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 Sufi teacher, Ahmad Kasani (1461–1542). The most powerful religious figure in the late Timurid era was the Naqshbandi Shaykh Khoja Ahrar. The khojas often played, or aspired to play, ruling roles in the Turkic communities

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 of Xinjiang

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Although Ahmad Kasani himself, known as Makhdūm-i`Azam ("Great Master") to his followers, never visited East Turkestan (today's Xinjiang), many of his descendants, known as Makhdūmzādas, and bearing the title of khwāja (khoja) played important parts in the region's politics during 17th through 19th century.

In Kazakhstan the highest nobility of Kazakh

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 people traditionally consists of tore (direct descendants of Genghis Khan

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Ahmad Kasani's second son, Muhammad Ishāq Walī (? - 1599) spent several years in East Turkestan.