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Author Thum, Rian Richard, author.

Title The sacred routes of Uyghur history / Rian Thum
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 323 pages) : illustration
Contents Note on orthography -- The historical canon -- Manuscript technology -- The shrine -- History in motion -- Saints of the nation -- The state
Summary For 250 years the Turkic Muslims of Tibet, who call themselves Uyghurs today, have cultivated a sense of history and identity that challenges Beijing's national narrative. The roots of this history run deeper than recent conflicts, Rian Thum says, to a time when manuscripts and pilgrimage along the Silk Road dominated understandings of the past
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Uighur (Turkic people) -- Historiography
Uighur (Turkic people) -- Travel
Uighur (Turkic people) -- Intellectual life
Uighur (Turkic people) -- Religion
Manuscripts, Uighur -- History
Islam -- China -- Takla Makan Desert Region -- Manuscripts -- History
Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- China -- Takla Makan Desert Region -- History
Sacred space -- China -- Takla Makan Desert Region -- History
Nationalism -- China -- Takla Makan Desert Region -- History
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Islam -- Manuscripts
Manuscripts, Uighur
Nationalism
Pilgrims and pilgrimages
Sacred space
Uighur (Turkic people) -- Religion
Uiguren
Historiografi.
Uigurer -- historia.
Uigurer -- idéhistoriska aspekter.
Uiguriska handskrifter.
Pilgrimer och pilgrimsfärder.
Heliga platser.
SUBJECT Takla Makan Desert (China) -- History, Local
Subject China -- Takla Makan Desert
Sinkiang
Genre/Form History
Local history
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674736238
0674736230