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Yusuf Qadir Khan
Yusuf Qadir Khan was a ruler of the Kara-Khanid Khanate based at Kashgar. He completed the conquest of the Buddhist Kingdom of Khotan around 1006, extending Islam in the Tarim Basin, and later became supreme khan. He met Mahmud of Ghazni in 1025 to agree an alliance against his rival kinsman Ali Tegin of Bukhara.
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