Muhammad Amin Bughra

Muhammad Amin Bughra
Emir of the Khotan
In office
1932 – April 1934
Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of China from Xinjiang province
In office
1943 – -
Personal details
BornApril 22, 1901
Hotan, Xinjiang, Qing China
DiedApril 29, 1965 (age 64)
Turkey
Political partyFlag of the First East Turkestan Republic Young Kashgar Party and Committee for National Revolution[1]
RelationsAbdullah Bughra, Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra

Muhammad Amin Bughra (also Muḥammad Amīn Bughra; Uyghur: مۇھەممەد ئىمىن بۇغرا, محمد أمين بغرا, Мухаммад Эмин Бугро; Chinese: 穆罕默德·伊敏; pinyin: Mùhǎnmòdé·Yīmǐn), sometimes known by his Han name Mao Deming (Chinese: 毛德明) and his Turkish name Mehmet Emin Buğra (1901–1965),[2] was a Uyghur Muslim leader who planned to set up a sovereign state, the First East Turkestan Republic. Muhammad Amin Bughra was a Jadidist.[3]

  1. ^ Andrew D. W. Forbes (1986). Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: a political history of Republican Sinkiang 1911-1949. Cambridge, England: CUP Archive. p. 84. ISBN 0-521-25514-7. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
  2. ^ Ondřej Klimeš (8 January 2015). Struggle by the Pen: The Uyghur Discourse of Nation and National Interest, c.1900-1949. Brill. pp. 122–. ISBN 978-90-04-28809-6.
  3. ^ Tursun, Nabijan (December 2014). "The influence of intellectuals of the first half of the 20th century on Uyghur politics". Uyghur Initiative Papers (11). Central Asia Program: 2–3. Archived from the original on 2016-10-12.