Editing Turpan (section)

===Conversion to Islam===
The conversion of the local Buddhist population to Islam was completed in the second half of the 15th century.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bianjiang.cass.cn/news/702187.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131215163244/http://www.bianjiang.cass.cn/news/702187.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 December 2013 |script-title=zh:关于明代前期土鲁番统治者世系的几个问题 |publisher=[[Chinese Academy of Social Sciences]] }}</ref>

After being converted, the descendants of the previously [[Kingdom of Qocho|Buddhist Uyghurs in Turfan]] failed to retain memory of their ancestral legacy and falsely believed that the "infidel Kalmuks" ([[Dzungar people|Dzungars]]) were the ones who built Buddhist monuments in their area.<ref name="GibbLewis1998">{{cite book|author1=Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb|author2=Bernard Lewis|author3=Johannes Hendrik Kramers |author4=Charles Pellat |author5=Joseph Schacht|title=The Encyclopaedia of Islam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PJPrAAAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Brill|page=677}}</ref>