| rdfs:comment | - The mausoleum was initially built ca. 1640 as the tomb of Muhammad Yūsuf, a Central Asian Naqshbandi Sufi master who had come to the Altishahr region (today's southern Xinjiang) in the early 17th century, and possibly was also active in spreading Sufism in China proper. Later, Muhammad Yūsuf's more famous son and successor, Afāq Khoja, was buried there as well. All told, the beautiful tiled mausoleum contains the tombs of five generations of the Afāqi family, providing resting places for its 72 members, both men and women.
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| abstract | - The mausoleum was initially built ca. 1640 as the tomb of Muhammad Yūsuf, a Central Asian Naqshbandi Sufi master who had come to the Altishahr region (today's southern Xinjiang) in the early 17th century, and possibly was also active in spreading Sufism in China proper. Later, Muhammad Yūsuf's more famous son and successor, Afāq Khoja, was buried there as well. All told, the beautiful tiled mausoleum contains the tombs of five generations of the Afāqi family, providing resting places for its 72 members, both men and women. The monument is also known as Xiangfei's tomb, as it is the burial place of one of Afaq Khoja's descendents, Iparhan, said to be the legendary "fragrant concubine", Xiangfei, who was the wife of a rogue leader who was captured by the Qianlong emperor and taken to Beijing to be his imperial concubine. Refusing to serve him, it is said she was forced to commit suicide or was murdered by the Emperor's mother.
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