Note 249 — Chapter XVI · The Kara-Khānides, or Uïghūrs

Grigorieff, in his well-known but harsh, and indeed unjust, review of Vambéry’s Bokhara, published as an Appendix to vol. i. of Schuyler’s Turkestan, says (1) that the Ilik Khāns were not Uïghūrs, but Karlukhs, and (2) that the Kara-Khitāys were their descendants. Though he takes M. Vambéry to task for not knowing such “facts,” neither of these statements will bear the light of modern research. Vambéry was, however, wrong in calling the Kara-Khitāys Uïghūrs.