Uyghur Culture

Kashgar Prints (1892-1938)

Prints from the Swedish Mission in Kashgar The following bibliography is a list of literature produced by Swedish missionaries in Xinjiang, China, between the years 1892 and 1938. In those days it was common to denote the region as Eastern Turkestan. The Swedish missionaries, too, used this name. They called the region Östturkestan (Eastern Turkestan) and referred to the Turkic language spoken by the oasis dwellers in this region östturkiska/ostturkiska (Eastern Turki), which later developed into what is today known as modern Uyghur. Missionary work among the Turkic-speaking Muslim people was conducted at three missionary stations set up in Kashgar, Yarkand and Yengi-Hisar. Efforts focused on the Chinese population took place at a...


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Gunnar Jarring (Collection)

Gunnar Valfrid Jarring (1907–2002) was a Swedish diplomat and leading Turkologist whose scholarship profoundly shaped the study of Eastern Turkic languages, including Uyghur. Trained at Lund University, he earned his PhD in 1933 with a pioneering dissertation on Eastern Turkic phonology and served as docent in Turkish linguistics. During the 1920s and 1930s, he conducted extensive fieldwork across Chinese Turkestan (Xinjiang), Central Asia, Afghanistan, and the Near East, producing foundational linguistic and ethnographic documentation of Uyghur and other Turkic communities. Alongside a distinguished diplomatic career—serving as Sweden’s ambassador to the United States, the Soviet Union, and several Asian states, as well as Permanent Representative to the United Nations—Jarring continued to publish...


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Uyghur Culture (Collection)

  • Ayup, A. (2017). Uyghur Food Culture (Pdf)
  • Beller-Hann, I. (2014). On the Fringes of the Harmonious Society (Pdf)
  • Beydulla, M. (2014). Access to Education in Xinjiang (Pdf)
  • Brose, M. C. (2005). Uyghur Technologists of Writing and Literacy in Mongol China (Pdf)
  • Byler, D. T. (2018). Uyghur Dispossession Culture Work and Terror Capitalism in a Chinese Global City (Pdf)

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Uyghur History (Collection)

  • Allworth, E. A. (1994). Modern Uzbeks from the 14th Century to the Present a Cultural History (Pdf)
  • Beller-Hann, I. (2008). Community Matters in Xinjiang 1880 1949 Towards a Historical Anthropology of the Uyghur Ildiko Beller Hann (Pdf)
  • Bellew, H. W. (1875). Kashmir and Kashghar a Narrative of the Journey of the Embassy to Kashghar in 1873 (Pdf)
  • Bergman, F. (1939). Archaeological Researches in Sinkiang (Pdf)
  • Brophy, D. (2016). Uyghur Nation Reform and Revolution (Pdf)

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 November 21, 2025 16 3194

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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 November 21, 2025 13 1830

Uyghur Women (Collected Studies)

  • Abramson, K. (2012). Gender Uyghur Identity and the Story of Nuzugum (Pdf)
  • Anderson, E. (2012). The Construction of Amannisa Khan As a Uyghur Musical Culture Hero (Pdf)
  • Atsiz, M. (2021). Kokturkce Ve Eski Uygurcada Kadin Ile Ilgili Kavramlar (Pdf)
  • Cui, Y. (2021). Becoming Uyghur Elites How Uyghur Women Egotiate Their Gendered Identities (Pdf)
  • Genc, Z. (2009). Uygurlarda Kadin (Pdf)

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 November 1, 2025 12 2769

Geopolitics & Economics

  • 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)
  • Bovingdon, G. (2002). Uyghur Resistance to Han Rule in Xinjiang (Pdf)
  • Byler, D. T. (2018). Uyghur Dispossession Culture Work and Terror Capitalism in a Chinese Global City (Pdf)

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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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 June 17, 2024 12 2441

Ancient Texts and Languages of Ethnic Groups along the Silk Road

Ancient Texts and Languages of Ethnic Groups along the Silk Road
Johannes Reckel and Merle Schatz (Eds.)
Author: Saifulla Abdullaev, Nazgul Abdyrakmatova, Erkin Awghaly …
Published: Universitätsdrucke Göttingen, 2021
This work is protected by German Intellectual Property Right Law. It is also available as an Open Access version through the publisher’s homepage and the Göttingen University Catalogue (GUK) at the Göttingen State and University Library (https://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de).

ARTICLES:
1. Ancient Texts and Languages of Ethnic Groups along the Silk Road Introduction (Johannes Reckel and Merle Schatz)
2. Correlation of the Texts of Ancient Turks with Modern Folklore: ‘Kutadgu Bilik’ and ‘Nur Dastani’ (Saifulla Abdullaev)
3. Influence of the Great Silk Road on the Culture and Language of the Kyrgyz...

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