Kahar Barat

Template:Infobox academic Kahar Barat (Template:Zh; born 1950) is an Uyghur-American historian, known for his work on Buddhism and Islam in Xinjiang.

Kahar Barat was born in Yili in 1950. He earned his M.A. degree in Turkology from the Central University for Ethnic Minorities (Minzu University of China) in Beijing; he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1993. <ref name=iv>Uyghur Historian Kahar Barat Discusses Xinjiang History, Part 1, an English translation of Kahar Barat's interview by Wang Lixiong. (The Chinese original: 新疆的古代王朝与宗教转换, "The old kingdoms of Xinjiang and religious conversions")</ref> <ref name=yale>Kahar Barat - faculty profile, Yale University</ref> He later taught at Yale University and other institutions.<ref>NELC to suffer the loss of key language professors</ref>

In 2000, Kahar Barat published an annotated English edition of parts of "The Uygur-Turkic biography of the seventh-century Chinese Buddhist Pilgrim Xuanzang".<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

Barat's recent book, named Maymaq Uyghurlar ("Warped Uyghurs", in Uyghur) discusses the plight of Xinjiang's artists, who find themselves in the position of packaging the Uyghur culture for consumption by outside audiences.<ref name=iv/>