Studies on Uyghur Religious Practices Throughout History

Islam (Collected Studies)

  • Caksu, A. (2020). Islamophobia Chinese Style (Pdf)
  • Davis, E. V. W. (2008). Uyghur Muslim Ethnic Separatism in Xinjiang China (Pdf)
  • Dawut, R. (2002). Mazar Festivals of the Uyghurs Music Islam and the Chinese State (Pdf)
  • Dawut, R. (2009). Shrine Pilgrimage Among the Uighurs (Pdf)
  • Dawut, R. (2012). Desert Mazar in Context (Pdf)

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Buddhism (Collected Studies)

  • An Old Yakup A 2011 Uyghur Fragment Of The Lotus Sutra From The Krotkov Collection In St Petersburg (Pdf)
  • Kudara, K. (2002). The Buddhist Culture of the Old Uigur Peoples (Pdf)
  • Meinert, C. (2016). Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian Networks (Pdf)
  • Meinert, C. (2020). Buddhism in Central Asia I (Pdf)
  • Sultanova, R. (2011). From Shamanism to Sufism Women Islam and Culture in Central Asia (Pdf)

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Rahile Dawut (Collection)

Rahile Dawut (Uyghur: راھىلە داۋۇت; Chinese: 热依拉·达吾提; pinyin: Rèyīlā Dáwútí; born May 20, 1966) is a prominent Uyghur ethnographer whose scholarship has made significant contributions to the study of Uyghur folklore, religious practice, and cultural history. Formerly a professor at Xinjiang University, she founded the Minorities Folklore Research Centre, which became a major institutional hub for research on the intangible cultural heritage of the region. In 2017, Dawut was forcibly disappeared by state authorities, and in 2023 she was reported to have received a life sentence on charges of “endangering state security.” An ethnic Uyghur from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Dawut had been a member of the Chinese Communist Party...


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Uyghur Identity (Collection)

  • Adriano, P. R. (2013). Violence Resistance in Xinjiang China (Pdf)
  • Baranovitch, N. (2003). From the Margins to the Centre the Uyghur Challenge in Beijing (Pdf)
  • Beller-Hann, I. (2014). On the Fringes of the Harmonious Society (Pdf)
  • Bergman, F. (1939). Archaeological Researches in Sinkiang (Pdf)
  • Bovingdon, G. (2002). Uyghur Resistance to Han Rule in Xinjiang (Pdf)

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