Kashgar Revisited: Uyghur Studies in Memory of Ambassador Gunnar Jarring

Ildikó Bellér-Hann (PhD 1989, habilitation 2005) is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen. Her numerous publications on the anthropology and history of the Uyghur of Xinjiang include Community Matters in Xinjiang 1880-1949 (Brill 2008).Birgit N. Schlyter (PhD 1985) is Professor of Central Asian Studies at Stockholm University. She has published extensively in Turkic linguistics and is the editor of Gunnar Jarring’s unpublished last manuscript, a comprehensive Uyghur-English dialect dictionary. Jun Sugawara (MA 1992) is Research Fellow at the Institute for Global Area Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He has published a dictionary and numerous articles on the history and language of Uyghurs, including A Concise Modern Uyghur-Japanese Dictionary (ILCAA 2009)

• PrefaceList of Figures and Tables A Note on Transliteration and SpellingNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: In the Footsteps of Ambassador Gunnar JarringIldikó Bellér-Hann, Birgit N. Schlyter, Jun SugawaraPart 1: Language1 From the Private Library of Gunnar Jarring and His New Eastern Turki DictionaryBirgit N. Schlyter2 Manuscript Technologies, Writing, and Reading in Early 20th Century KashgarArienne M. Dwyer3 From Eastern Turki to Modern Uyghur: A Lexicological Study of Prints from the Swedish Mission Press in Kashgar (1892–1938)Äsäd Sulaiman4 The Khotan Varieties of Uyghur as Seen in Jarring’s TranscriptionAbdurishid YakupPart 2: History5 The 1795 Khoqand Mission and Its Negotiations with the Qing: Political and Diplomatic Space of Qing KashgariaTakahiro Onuma6 Muslims at the Yamen Gate: Translating Justice in Late-Qing XinjiangEric T. Schluessel7 Models and Realities: Aspects of Format in Real Estate Deeds under Conditions of Legal Pluralism in XinjiangJun Sugawara8 Muslim Reformism in Xinjiang: Reading the Newspaper Yengī Ḥayāt (1934–1937)Alexandre Papas9 Defining the Past and Shaping the Future: Reflections on Xinjiang Narratives, Uyghur-Han-Hui Relations, and the Perspectives of ResearchFredrik FällmanPart 3: Religion10 Writing the Religious and Social History of Some Sufi Lodges in Kashgar in the 20th CenturyThierry Zarcone11 Ordam Mazar: A Meeting Place for Different Practices and Belief Systems in Culturally Diverse XinjiangRahile Dawut12 Magic, Science, and Religion in Eastern XinjiangChris Hann and Ildikó Bellér-HannPart 4: Kinship and Gender13 “Keep the wealth within the Family”: Cousin Marriage and Swedish Uncles in KashgarRune Steenberg14 “A man works on the land, a woman works for her man”: Building on Jarring’s Fascination with Eastern Turki ProverbsDilmurat Mahmut [Dilimulati Maihemuti] and Joanne Smith FinleyIndex