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Amannisa Khan
Sixteenth-century consort of Rashid Khan of Yarkand, a poet and musician recorded as leading the collection and ordering of the Uyghur Twelve Muqam.
Mural of the cultural record “Dances of Xinjiang's Peoples”, which this person is tied to.
Also known as Amannisa Xan · Pen name Nefisi
Amannisa Khan was a sixteenth-century consort of Rashid Khan of the Yarkand Khanate; her dates are disputed, one account giving 1526 to 1560. A poet and musician, she wrote verse under the pen name Nefisi. According to the History of Musicians of 1854, the only known source for her life, she gathered muqam musicians with the khan's support and over many years collected and regularised the Uyghur classical repertoire into the Twelve Muqam. A memorial tomb stands in Yarkand (Shache), Xinjiang.
Life and times
Dates Dates disputed; by one account 1526–1560