She is credited with collecting and thereby preserving the Twelve Muqam,[1] which is today considered a musical style of the Uyghur people of Northwest China.

Amannisa Khan was born on the banks of the Tizinafu River in an area inhabited by the pre-Uyghur Dolan people, which is modern-day Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County.

[3] That manuscript was translated into the modern Uyghur language by the Nationalities Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1982.

[2] She was promoted as a cultural hero by the People's Republic of China for certain approved characteristics, including being born in the area and being from a background of poverty and close to peasants.

Saifuding Aizezi, the first Chinese Communist leader of Xinjiang, published a play about her in 1983, which portrayed Amannisa's conflict with Abdurashid's first wife, Yadigar.