Musa Sayrami

Mulla Musa Sayrami (Chagatay: ملا موسی سیرامی, romanized: Mullā Mūsā Säyrāmī; Uyghur: موللا مۇسا سايرامى, romanized: Molla Musa Sayrami; 1836–1917) was a historian from Xinjiang, known for his account of the events in that region in the 19th century, in particular the Dungan Rebellion of 1864–1877.

[2] In the summer 1864, during the early days of the Dungan Rebellion in Xinjiang, Musa joined the army of the rebel Khoja Burhān al-Dīn when it passed through Sayram.

[2] Musa survived the death of Yaqub Beg and the reconquest of Xinjiang by Zuo Zongtang's Qing armies in 1877.

Usmanov thus suggested that Petrovsky, known as an avid collector of materials related to the history of the region, may have been instrumental in encouraging Musa to undertake his work.

[7] (Pantusov had apparently a special interest in the history of the region; he had earlier published a Russian translation of another work on the same topic, Mullā Bilāl's Ghazāt dar mulk-i Chín ("Holy War in China"), originally written in 1876.