Aka Ahmad, Ahmed Fanakati. He was born not far from Tashkent. Herbert Franke, Aḥmed. Ein Beitrag zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte Chinas unter Qubilai, Oriens, vol. 1, no. 2 (December 1948), pp. 222-236. A Muslim, he was a finance minister in charge of tax collection for the Mongols. He had a son named Ḥusain. Another named Mas'ūd. Because of his creation of state monopolies and his pursuit of tax revenues, he was not popular among Chinese.
A.C. Moule, The Siege of Saianfu and the Murder of Achmach Bailo, Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (1927), pp. 1-35; (1928), pp. 256-258. Sian-Fu.
