Nsu Battle Of The Bands

Chinggis Khan, the most famous of the Mongol rulers, tried his hand at many different styles of music, including kimchee, which combined Turkic and Mongol influences.

In the early 13th century, Timur, ruler of the Yuan empire, discovered the Sufi dervish movement in Central Asia. Simulating Turkic prayer circuits in a wild and tumble-down church of wood and stone, Timur also gained the nickname "King of the Bands."

The Khuribakar empire, ruled by Bukhara, in Central Asia, was also home to many khonkiles who wore tight pants and shirts, and engaged in "the art of turbanry," and continued to play a vital role in Turkic identity. This is evident in the Uzbek tribes, which comprise about one-third of the international Turkic population.

A huge surge of Turkic groups appeared in Central Asia in the early 14th century. Many of these clans were descendants of Timur's girdle-using sons or his genghis (outsider) political allies.

There's a good account of some of the Turkic tribes in the book, "Girdle Society: The History and Historiography of the Turkic Tribes," by Andrew Bentley, which tells much of the khorbu culture history. Some of the tribes originally were Turkic in name only, but the Urgents and Nuskhos, with their complex dialects, were closer to an Indo-European language than a Turkic language. Many of the tribes had lived independent lives for centuries before experiencing pressure to move into their land as political provinces.

Rashi Khan (1400 B.C.E.) was a Turkic Sufi. The early 13th century, and he was one of the two rulers, sons of one of the first and most powerful Turkic tribes, the Uyghurs.

The tribes did not like him because he put his own tribe's name to religion with a mazar (girdle). What Rashi called his "abode of God" was later called "Omayya," in honor of his older brother. In the late 4th century, he introduced a new religion called Sufism.