A Review Of Türk
Khiva khan Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur wrote in his Chagatai language treatise Shajara-i Tarākima (Genealogy in the Turkmens) that "their chin began to grow to be slender, their eyes began to become huge, their faces started to turn into modest, and their noses started to come to be huge' after 5-6 generations". Ottoman historian Mustafa Âlî commented