The Yusfu Has Hajip Tomb

The Yusuf Has Hajip Tomb is located on the campus of the Kashi Number 12 primary school. Yusuf Has Hajip, an Uygur poet, scholar and thinker, was born in Husiwurdui (Balashagun) in Karakhanid Dynasty, and later immigrated to Kashgar. He wrote the long narrative philosophic poem Kuladku Bilig (The Knowledge of Happiness). After he died, he was buried in Badige, outside the city of Kashgar. His tomb was moved to its present site when it was threatened by the flooding of the Toman River.