Musa Sayrami

Mullā Mūsa Sayrāmī (Uyghur: موللا مۇسا سەيرامى‎, ULY: Molla Musa Seyrami, Uzbek: Mulla Muso Sayramiy; 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. While the ethnonym Uyghurs, with its modern meaning, was not yet used in Musa Sayrami's day, he probably would be called an Uyghur if he lived a few decades later, based on his place of birth and the language of his literary works.

Musa was originally from the village of Sayram, located northwest of Kuqa in what is today Baicheng County, Xinjiang. The place should not be confused with the larger city of the same name in Kazakhstan. In his youth he was sent to Kuqa to study at the madrassah of Mulla Osman Akhund. He became a close friend of one of his classmates, named Mahmudin (Muḥammad al-Dīn), a son of Burhān al-Dīn Khoja, an important member of the Khoja clan. Musa later referred to Mahmudin as "Khojam Padishah".

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