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Ancient Heritage of Täklimakan: Uyghur Urbiculture
In Ancient Heritage of Täklimakan and Uyghur Urbiculture, Dr. Dolkun Kamberi helps readers understand the Taklimakan was the main region through which the ancient Silk-Road had to pass. Discoveries many ancient heritages, cities sites, richness, and diversity of Uyghur literature provide a great deal of information regarding the early Uyghur civilization. The increasing role archaeology has played in aiding experts in constructing a chronology of Uyghur urbiculture using unearthed Uyghur manuscripts, medieval travelers’ accounts, and historical heritage of well-developed Uyghur literature.
Uyghurs and Uyghur Identity
Archaeological excavations and historical records show that Uyghur-land is the most important repository of Uyghur and Central Asian treasures.This publication gives the reader a full description of Uyghur cultural identity.
The Great Archeological Discovery of the Century
The Book selected Dr. Dolkun Kamberi's seven academic research theses. It is crystallization of Dr. Kamberi's many years' archeological field hard work and academic experience. Each thesis with its distinguished and excellent intellectual view which the author has obtained the firsthand materials from thorough personal archeological field work and study, research, analysis, decipherment, annotation, and translation of medieval Uyghur manuscripts and other archaeological evidence. It presents to intellectuals in social science and the humanities studies real information. It fills in gaps in archeological and historical data and interpretation about Central Asian civilization. It is important not only for understanding the medieval Uyghur cultural history, but also for research in the general cultural history of Central Asian, where it has the same crucial significance. The thesis examines and investigates the archeological and historical background of Uyghurs. It also interprets medieval Uyghur manuscript and related cultural phenomena in the medieval period, thus helping to improve scholars' understanding of the ancient and medieval Central Asian culture, language, literature.
Caged
Nurmuhemmet Yasin was a popular author of short stories, essays and poetry when he was arrested in Kashgar in 2004. He had just published Wild Pigeon, a Uyghur tale of longing for lost freedom. This e-book features the now banned tale and an essay about love. Yasin is due to be released next year, if he is still alive.
Ancient Heritage of Täklimakan: Uyghur Urbiculture
In Ancient Heritage of Täklimakan and Uyghur Urbiculture, Dr. Dolkun Kamberi helps readers understand the Taklimakan was the main region through which the ancient Silk-Road had to pass. Discoveries many ancient heritages, cities sites, richness, and diversity of Uyghur literature provide a great deal of information regarding the early Uyghur civilization. The increasing role archaeology has played in aiding experts in constructing a chronology of Uyghur urbiculture using unearthed Uyghur manuscripts, medieval travelers’ accounts, and historical heritage of well-developed Uyghur literature.
Flashpoints in the War on Terrorism
This volume offers a comprehensive overview of international political violence by bringing together foreign policy experts on several regions who examine conflicts in the Fertile Crescent, the Balkans, the Post-Soviet Region, the Himalayas, Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. With cogent assessments of civil conflicts that threaten to be part of a ‘global jihad’, each chapter both dissects the historical roots and socio-economic causes that catalyze terrorism in those areas, as well as posits ways for the United States to meet the myriad of foreign policy challenges posed by the growing threat of contemporary international terrorism.
Ottoman Past and Today's Turkey
For the first time, the continuity of Ottoman culture in contemporary Turkey is discussed, by a group of well-known scholars of Ottoman-Turkish history and society. The insightful essays provide not only original knowledge, but also new interpretations concerning ethnicity and state involvement in identity creation.
The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History
For 250 years, the Turkic Muslims of Altishahr—the vast desert region to the northwest of Tibet—have led an uneasy existence under Chinese rule. Today they call themselves Uyghurs, and they have cultivated a sense of history and identity that challenges Beijing’s official national narrative. Rian Thum argues that the roots of this history run deeper than recent conflicts, to a time when manuscripts and pilgrimage dominated understandings of the past. Beyond broadening our knowledge of tensions between the Uyghurs and the Chinese government, this meditation on the very concept of history probes the limits of human interaction with the past. Uyghur historical practice emerged from the ci...
