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- ↑ Frank, Allen J. (14 September 2012). Bukhara and the Muslims of Russia: Sufism, Education, and the Paradox of Islamic Prestige. Brill's Inner Asian Library. Brill (published 2012). p. 37. ISBN 9789004234901 . Retrieved 2015-10-12.
In the historical legends of the Siberian Tatars the two Muslim dynasties that pre-dated the Russian conquest are linked explicitly to Bukhara. [...S]everal accounts in West Siberian Turkic manuscripts relate an account of the history of the dynasty that Kuchum displaced, the Taybughids. These legends [...] state that the founder of the Taybughid dynasty, Taybugha Biy, came from Bukhara, and was the son of a ruler there. Taybugha Biy brought a number of religious scholars with him, and they were responsible for the Islamization of Siberia.
- ↑ History of the Mongols: The so-called Tartars of Russia and Central Asia. 2 v. Longmans, Green, and Company. 1880. Retrieved 2 July 2008.
- ↑ Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company. 1912. Retrieved 2 July 2008.
- ↑ James Forsyth (1994). A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521477710 . Retrieved 2 July 2008.
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