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great service to human kind. Prominent statesmen such as Satuk
Bughra Khan (---/d. 955-956), Seljuq Bey (---/d. 1007), Mahmud Ghaz-
navi (b. 998-d. 1030), Malik Shah (b. 1055-d. 1092), Timur (b. 1336-d.
1405), and Babur Shah (b. 1483-d. 1530) were among the great figures
who emerged from those lands. Imam Bukhari, Imam Tirmidhi, Ibn
Sina (Avicenna), Abu Nasr al-Farabi (Avennasar), Narshaki, Za-
makhshari and Marginani, who enriched the libraries of Islam with
their works, were among the great thinkers who forged the way for
other scientists of the world. Furthermore, Makhmud al-Kashgari, au-

W orks such as the Kutadgu Bilig and the Atabet'ul Haqayiq are considered
as important to world history as they are to that of the Turkish-Islamic
world.

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