The Khoja are a caste of Muslims mainly members of the Nizari Ismaʿiliyyah sect of Islam with a minority of followers of Sunni Islam originating the western...
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Khoja or Khwaja (Kazakh: қожа; Kyrgyz: кожо; Uyghur: خوجا; Persian: خواجه; Tajik: хӯҷа; Uzbek: xo'ja; Chinese: 和卓; pinyin: hézhuó), a Persian word literally...
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Look up Khoja in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Khoja is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Abdulaziz bin Mohieddin Khoja (born 1940)...
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Look up khoja or Khoja in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Khojas are a social group of South Asia. Khoja may also refer to: Khoja (name), list of...
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Emin Khoja (Uyghur: ئىمىن خوجا, Chinese: 額敏和卓), alternatively rendered as Amīn Khoja and Emin Khwaja, was an Uighur leader from Turpan who revolted against...
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Afaq Khoja (Uyghur: ئاپاق خوجا), born Hidayat Allah (Uyghur: هدایتالله; Chinese: 伊達雅圖勒拉), also known as Apaq Xoja or more properly Āfāq Khwāja (Persian:...
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The Khoja-Gaukushan Ensemble (Uzbek: Govkushon majmuasi / Говкушон мажмуаси) is one of the largest architectural complexes in the center of Bukhara. Along...
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Jahanghir Khoja, Jāhangīr Khwāja or Jihangir Khoja (Uyghur: جهانگیر خوجا, جهانگير خوجة; traditional Chinese: 張格爾; simplified Chinese: 张格尔; pinyin: Zhānggé'ěr;...
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Ilyas Khoja (Chagatai and Persian: الیاس خواجه; died 1368) was Khan in Transoxiana (1363) and Khan of Moghulistan from 1363 to 1368. He was the son of...
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The Khoja Mosque is a mosque in Nairobi, Kenya. It is located along the River Road and Moi Avenue junction at the edge of central business district. The...
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Khawaja (redirect from Khoja Sheikh)
hoca in modern Turkish, hoxha in Albanian, խոջա (xoǰa) in Armenian, xoca (khoja) in Azerbaijani, hodža/хоџа in Serbo-Croatian, ходжа (khodzha) in Bulgarian...
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The Mausoleum of Khoja Mashkhad is located 6 km south of Shaartuz in the Khatlon province of Tajikistan. The mausoleum is a rare example of a pre-Mongol...
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Khoja Niyaz, also Khoja Niyaz Haji (Uyghur: خوجا نىياز ھاجى, romanized: Xoja Niyaz Haji; Chinese: 和加尼牙孜; pinyin: Héjiā Níyázī; 1889 – 21 August 1941)...
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The Khoja Ubban mausoleum is an architectural monument in Romitan District, Bukhara Region. It was built in the 16th century. The monument is located...
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Khoja Doniyor mausoleum is an architectural monument in Samarkand (built at the beginning of the 20th century). It is located in the east side of the...
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The Khojaly massacre (Azerbaijani: Xocalı soyqırımı, Armenian: Խոջալուի արյունահեղություն, romanized: Khojalui aryunaheghut’yun) was the mass killing...
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Dughlat rebelled and killed Ilyas Khoja in 1368, taking the throne for himself. Ilyas Khoja's brother Khizr Khoja fled to Turpan where he set up his...
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Antilia (building) (redirect from Currimbhoy Ebrahim Khoja Orphanage trust)
on which Antilia was built housed an orphanage called Currimbhoy Ebrahim Khoja Yateemkhana (Kareembhai Ibrahim Khwaja Orphanage) belonging to a charity...
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Khaled Khoja (Arabic: خالد خوجة, Turkish: Halid Hoca, born 4 July 1965) is a Syrian-Turkish politician. He was the president of the National Coalition...
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Although the followers of Afaq Khoja known as the Āfāqī Khojas resisted Qing rule, their rebellion was put down and the khojas were removed from power. Beginning...
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Ahmad Yasawi (redirect from Khoja Ahmad Yasavi)
Arystan-Bab (also known as Arslan Baba), was the teacher and spiritual mentor of Khoja Ahmad Yasawi. It was Arystan-Bab who transmitted the amanat (trustworthiness...
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Jinnah family (category Khoja Ismailis)
Jinnah's family history is disputed among various sources. Originally from a Khoja background, they moved to Karachi from Kathiawar, Bombay Province in 1875...
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Murad II (redirect from Murad Khan II Khoja-Ghazi)
Murad II (Ottoman Turkish: مراد ثانى, romanized: Murād-ı sānī, Turkish: II. Murad; June 1404 – 3 February 1451) was twice the sultan of the Ottoman Empire...
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Poonawalla (category Khoja Ismailis)
Poonawalla or Poonawala is an Indian (Parsi/Dawoodi Bohra/Khoja) toponymic surname for someone from Pune (formerly Poona) in India. It may refer to: Adar...
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Tashkent (1784) (redirect from Yunus Khoja)
the Sheykhantaur hakim died, transferring the power to his son, Yunus Khoja. In 1784, the rivalry of the four parts of Tashkent resulted in an armed...
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Muhammad Yusuf Khoja (محمد یوسف خواجه ; modern Uyghur: مۇھەممەد يۈسۈپ خوجا; Chinese: 瑪木特玉素布) was a seventeenth-century Naqshbandi Sufi leader. Born in...
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Shenila Khoja-Moolji is the Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Endowed Chair of Muslim Societies and an Associate Professor at Georgetown University. She is a...
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Kashgarian Muslim woman named Iparhan ("Musky Woman"), the granddaughter of Afaq Khoja, a local chieftain in the oasis city of Kashgar. Even more remarkable than...
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head of the Khoja community of Bombay. The case was officially a property dispute between a subset of dissident leaders of the Bombay Khojas and the Aga...
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Qocho (redirect from Kara-Khoja Kingdom)
Qocho or Kara-Khoja (Chinese: 高昌回鶻; pinyin: Gāochāng Huíhú; lit. 'Gaochang Uyghurs'), also known as Idiqut, ("holy wealth"; "glory"; "lord of fortune")...
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