Timur Beg

{{Short description|Uyghur revolutionary (1886–1933)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Timur Beg

| native_name = تیمور بیگ

| native_name_lang = ug

| nationality = Uighur

| image = Timur Beg (crop).jpg

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| caption =

| order = Shah

| term_start = 1933

| term_end = 1933

| birth_date = 1886

| birth_place = Kucha, Qing Dynasty

| death_date = 9 August 1933 (aged 46–47)

| death_place = Kashgar, Republic of China

| spouse =

| party = {{flagicon image|Flag of the First East Turkestan Republic.svg}} Young Kashgar Party

}}

Timur Beg ({{langx|ug|تیمور بیگ}}), also known as Timur Sijan (division general), was a Uighur rebel military leader in Xinjiang in 1933. He was involved in the 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".{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IAs9AAAAIAAJ&q=temur+shah|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|access-date=2010-06-28}} He and other Uighurs like the Bughra brothers wanted to secede from China. In August 1933 his troops were attacked by the Chinese Muslim 36th Division of the National Revolutionary Army under General Ma Zhancang. Timur was shot and killed in Kashgar.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tfWq65DlGxkC&q=timur+beg+idgah&pg=PA77|title=Xinjiang: China's Muslim borderland|author=S. Frederick Starr|year=2004|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|isbn=0-7656-1318-2|page=77|access-date=2010-06-28}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IAs9AAAAIAAJ&q=temur+head+was+cut+off+spike+|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|access-date=2010-06-28}}