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{{Infobox President | name=Timur Beg <Br>تیمور بیگ
| nationality=[[Uighur people|Uighur]]
| religion=[[Islam]]
| image=
| caption = Timur Beg
| imagesize=
| order= [[Shah]]
| term_start= 1933
| term_end= 1933
| birth_date=1886
| birth_place=[[Kucha]]
| dead=alive
| death_date= August 09,1933
| death_place= [[Kashgar]]
| spouse=
| party=[[File:Flag of the First East Turkestan Republic.svg|20px|Flag of the First East Turkestan Republic]] [[Young Kashgar Party]]}}

'''Timur Beg''' ({{lang-ug|تیمور بیگ|}}), or '''Timur Sijan''' (division general) was a [[Uyghur people|Uighur]] rebel military leader in [[Xinjiang]] in 1933. He was involved in the [[Battle of Kashgar (1933)|1933 Battle of Kashgar]] and participated before in [[Turpan]] Rebellion (1932). He associated with the Turkic nationalist [[Young Kashgar Party]] and appointed himself as 'Timur [[Shah]]'.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IAs9AAAAIAAJ&dq=abdullah+bughra&q=temur+shah#v=snippet&q=temur%20shah&f=false|title=Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: a political history of Republican Sinkiang 1911-1949|author=Andrew D. W. Forbes|year=1986|publisher=CUP Archive|location=Cambridge, England|isbn=0-521-25514-7|page=83|accessdate=2010-06-28}}</ref> He and other Uighurs like the Bughra brothers wanted to secede from China. In August 1933 his troops were attacked by the [[Hui people|Chinese Muslim]] [[36th Division (National Revolutionary Army)]] under General [[Ma Zhancang]]. Timur was shot and beheaded and his head was put on a pike, to be displayed at the [[Idgah mosque]] in Kashgar.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tfWq65DlGxkC&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77&dq=timur+beg+idgah&source=bl&ots=8TPf52E8xK&sig=5nVElbY5inJMM-U5ZZOi_RgqJmY&hl=en&ei=YKkaTJWbD8GAlAetzN23Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=timur%20beg%20idgah&f=false|title=Xinjiang: China's Muslim borderland|author=S. Frederick Starr|year=2004|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|location=|isbn=0-7656-1318-2|page=77|accessdate=2010-06-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IAs9AAAAIAAJ&dq=abdullah+bughra&q=temur+shah#v=snippet&q=temur%20head%20was%20cut%20off%20spike%20&f=false|title=Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: a political history of Republican Sinkiang 1911-1949|author=Andrew D. W. Forbes|year=1986|publisher=CUP Archive|location=Cambridge, England|isbn=0-521-25514-7|page=93|accessdate=2010-06-28}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://oxuscom.com/sovinxj.htm The Soviets in Xinjiang (1911-1949) by Mark Dickens]

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