Post Tagged with: "Uyghur Sufi in Exile"
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Aesthetic Orientations, Cultural Re-Engineering, and Spiritual Joy
Encounters with Uyghur Sufis in Exile A talk given by Rachel Harris at the Research Seminar of the School of Modern Languages (students’ choice), Newcastle University, March 6, 2024. Abstract: This talk reflects on China’s ongoing campaigns in the Uyghur region and related debates on cultural erasure through the lens of recent ethnographic encounters with Uyghur Sufis in exile in Istanbul and Dubai. They are inheritors of an Islamic cultural and spiritual tradition which […]