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Satuq Bughra Khan
Satuq Bughra Khan was a ruler of the Kara-Khanid Khanate in Central Asia and the first Turkic khan known to have converted to Islam, around 934. With Samanid support he took Kashgar, and his successors made Islam the religion of the state and its Turkic peoples. His tomb at Artux near Kashgar remains a place of pilgrimage.
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