Committee for National Revolution

{{short description|Uighur nationalist party (1932–1934)}}

{{Infobox political party

| name = Committee for National Revolution

| leader = Sabit Damulla Abdulbaki

| foundation = 1932

| dissolved = 1934

| ideology = Jadidism
Turkic nationalism
Pan-Turkism
Anti-communism
Anti-Han sentiment
Anti-Hui sentiment

| religion = Sunni Islam

| position = Right-wing

| nationality =

| headquarters = Kashgar, First East Turkestan Republic

| colorcode = #0084FF

}}

The Committee for National Revolution ({{zh|t=民族革命委員會}}) was a Turkic Nationalist Uighur party which existed in 1932–1934. It helped found the First East Turkestan Republic. It was anti-Chinese, anti-Chinese Muslim, and anti-Communist.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bEzNwgtiVQ0C&q=anti+dongan+anti+chinese&pg=PA115|title=Wild West China: the taming of Xinjiang|author=Christian Tyler|year=2004|publisher=Rutgers University Press|location=New Brunswick, New Jersey|isbn=978-0-8135-3533-3 |page=115|access-date=2010-06-28}} The leader of Karakash gold miners Ismail Khan Khoja, the Khotan Emir Muhammad Amin Bughra, his brothers Abdullah Bughra, Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra, and Sabit Damulla Abdulbaki joined the committee. It had originally 300 members and 50 rifles. On February 20, 1933, it set up a provisional Khotan government with Sabit as prime minister and Muhammad Amin Bughra as head of the armed forces. It favored the establishment of an Islamic theocracy.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IAs9AAAAIAAJ&q=committee+for+national+revolution+sabit&pg=PA84|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=84|access-date=2010-06-28}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KwZpAAAAMAAJ&q=committee+for+national+revolution+sabit|title=Post-Soviet Central Asia|author=Touraj Atabaki, John O'Kane, International Institute for Asian Studies|year=1998|publisher=the University of Michigan|page=270|isbn=9781860643279|access-date=2010-06-28}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8VAjAQAAIAAJ&q=committee+for+national+revolution+sabit|title=Eurasian studies, Volume 2, Issues 3-4|author=Türk İşbirliği ve Kalkınma Ajansı|year=1995|publisher=Turkish International Cooperation Agency|page=31|access-date=2010-06-28}}

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