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Manichaeism and Buddhism in Contact: The Significance of the Uyghur History and Its Literary Tradition

open access: yesEntangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2023
The exchanges between Manichaeism and Buddhism are one of the most-discussed topics in the religious study of Central Asia. Old Uyghur materials are often used in these discussions because the Uyghurs experienced the religious shift from Manichaeism to ...
Yukiyo Kasai
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Islam in China: Uyghurs in Crisis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Islam has been in China for hundreds of years and has been the religion to ten people groups in China, including the Uyghur people group. The Uyghurs have been under China’s domain since the mid-1700s and since then have stood out among the fifty-five ...
Baez, Isabella
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The Changing Uyghur Religious Soundscape [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Recent studies in the anthropology of Islam have called for a new understanding of the relationship between global forms of Islam and local priorities, new ideologies and everyday religious experience. This article addresses these concerns in the context
Harris, Rachel
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Między sprawczością a wykorzenieniem. Etniczne reakcje na obrzeżach chińskiej hegemonii

open access: yesEtnografia Polska, 2021
Artykuł recenzyjny dotyczący książek: Hann Chris, Bellér-Hann Ildikó 2020, Great Dispossession. Uyghurs between Civilizations, Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia, LIT Verlag, Berlin, Münster.
Jerzy S. Wasilewski
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Post-Soviet Islam : An Anthropological Perspective - Introduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This is an electronic version of an article published in Rasanayagam, J. (2006). 'Post-Soviet Islam: An Anthropological Perspective - Introduction.' Central Asian Survey 25(3) pp. 219-233.
Rasanayagam, Johan
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Political meritocracy and its betrayal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Some Confucian scholars have recently claimed that Confucian political meritocracy is superior to Western democracy. I have great reservations about such a view. In this article, I argue that so lo..
Mang, Franz
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The Islamic State as a Potential Threat to the National Security of the People’s Republic of China

open access: yesHistoria i Polityka, 2019
This paper is devoted to the analysis of the threat that the activities of the Islamic State may pose to the national security of China. The article briefly describes the history of the establishment of ISIS and the functioning of the organization.
Marcin Adamczyk
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Ethnic and cultural issues of Uyghurs identity in Xinjiang region

open access: yesRUDN Journal of World History, 2019
The Uyghurs are a Turkic-Muslim minority in the People`s Republic of China (PRC), their native language belongs to a Turkic language family and is written on the basis of Arabic graphics, and regard themselves as culturally and ethnically close to ...
Tatyana I. Ponka   +2 more
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Morris ROSSABI: China and the Uyghurs: A Concise Introduction

open access: yesAsian Studies, 2022
An account of the history of the Uyghur people is indispensable for understanding the current crisis in Xinjiang province. This is where China and the Uyghurs begins. As a historian of East Asia, Professor Rossabi approaches the problem of understanding
Norbert Francis
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Old Uigur Administrative Orders from Turfan

open access: yesİstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi
Matsui, Dai (2023). Old Uigur Administrative Orders from Turfan. Berliner Turfantexte XLVIII. Turnhout: Brepols. 294 s. ISBN: 978-2-503-60489-3.
Berker Keskin
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