Frank, Allen J. and Mirkasyim A. Usmanov, eds. An Islamic Biographical Dictionary of the Eastern Kazakh Steppe, 1770-1912: Khalidi, Qurban-'Ali. Brill's Inner Asian Library, Vol. 12, edited by Nicola Di Cosmo, Devin Deweese and Caroline Humphrey. Leiden: Brill, 2005.

This book, which was written between 1911 and 1913, contains many short biographies translated into English of Muslim figures in the eastern Kazakh steppe.  Qurban-'Ali Khalidi, the author, lived from 1846 to 1913.  He was a chief judge (qazi/qadi) for local Turkic Muslims and was accomplished in Qur'an recitation and Islamic law. 

Contents: Introduction (The Author and his Works; Islam in Eastern Kazakhstan and Dzungaria; Islamic Biographical Dictionaries in Imperial Russia; The Manuscript: Its Scope, Sources, and Language; Editor's Notes on the Edition); the Dictionary (English Translation and Notes; Turkic Text)