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'''Uyghurlar''' (in English: '''The Uyghurs''') is a book by poet [[Turghun Almas]] on the history of the "6,000 year history" of the [[Uyghur people|Uyghur]] ethnic group of the [[Xinjiang]] region of China.<ref name="Westerlund">{{Cite book|title=Islam Outside the Arab World|first=David|last=Westerlund|first2=Ingvar|last2=Svanberg|publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]]|year=1999|page=208}}</ref> It was published in the 1989 in the [[People's Republic of China]], at a high point of liberalization of academic freedom and ethnic minority policy in China. The book uses a stylized wolf on its cover that is a widely recognized symbol of [[Pan-Turkism]].<ref name="Westerlund" /> It was one of the books of the period that presented an "[[Historical revisionism|alternative]] Uyghur history", based on [[Soviet historiography]] during the [[Sino-Soviet split]], that advanced the thesis that the Uyghurs were "indigenous" to Xinjiang and should have an independent state.<ref name="Bellér-Hann">Bellér-Hann, Ildikó ''Situating the Uyghurs between China and Central Asia'' Ashgate 21 Dec 2007 ISBN 978-0-7546-7041-4 p.42</ref> It was also one of the first books to publicize the term [[East Turkestan]], which suggests a kinship to a "West Turkestan" in the independent [[Central Asia]]n states.<ref name="Bellér-Hann"/> In contrast to the official Chinese [[history of Xinjiang]], which states that the region was an integral part of China since the [[Han Dynasty]],<ref name="Dillon">{{Cite book|title=Xinjiang: China's Muslim Far Northwest|first=Michael|last=Dillon|publisher=[[Psychology Press]]|year=2004|page=52}}</ref> the book takes a nationalist view, saying that many "Uyghur" states throughout history were independent of, or even dominant over, China.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Twentieth-century China|author=University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies |author2=Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center|publisher=Twentieth-Century China, New York|year=1997|page=124}}</ref>

The book makes a number of non-orthodox theories about history, including that the [[Tarim mummies]] indicate that the Uyghurs were "older than [[China|Chinese civilization]] itself", and that the Uyghurs invented [[Four Great Inventions of ancient China|the compass, gunpowder, papermaking, and printing]]. It concluded, "If the Jews could reclaim their homeland after 3,000 years, the Uyghurs should be able to reclaim their homeland after 3,000 to 6,000 years".<ref>{{Cite book|title=Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland|author=Starr, S. Frederick|publisher=[[M. E. Sharpe]]|year=2004|page=315}} </ref>

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[[Category:Uyghurs]]
[[Category:Uyghur literature]]
[[Category:Pan-Turkism]]
[[Category:Ethnic groups in Chinese history]]

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