Editing Uyghurs (section)

===Literature===
{{main|Uyghur literature}}
[[File:Manicheans.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Leaf from a [[Uyghur Khaganate|Uyghur]]-[[Chinese Manichaeism|Manichaean]] version of the ''[[Arzhang]]'']]

The literary works of the ancient Uyghurs were mostly translations of Buddhist and Manichaean religious texts,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hk.plm.org.cn/e_book/xz-11348.pdf |language=zh-hans |script-title=zh:西域、 敦煌文獻所見回鵲之佛經翻譯 |website=hk.plm.org.cn |access-date=28 July 2013 }}{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> but there were also narrative, poetic and epic works apparently original to the Uyghurs. However it is the literature of the Kara-Khanid period that is considered by modern Uyghurs to be the important part of their literary traditions. Among these are Islamic religious texts and histories of [[Turkic peoples]], and important works surviving from that era are ''[[Kutadgu Bilig]]'', "Wisdom of Royal Glory" by [[Yusuf Khass Hajib]] (1069–70), [[Mahmud al-Kashgari]]'s ''Dīwānu l-Luġat al-Turk'', "A Dictionary of Turkic Dialects" (1072) and Ehmed Yükneki's ''Etebetulheqayiq''. Modern Uyghur religious literature includes the [[Tadhkirah (Ahmadiyya)|Taẕkirah]], biographies of Islamic religious figures and saints.<ref name="Thum2014 2">{{cite book|author=Rian Thum|title=The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pP6EBAAAQBAJ&q=tazkirah&pg=PA113|date=13 October 2014|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-59855-3|pages=113–}}</ref><ref name=Thum2012>{{cite journal |last1=Thum |first1=Rian |title=Modular History: Identity Maintenance before Uyghur Nationalism |journal=The Journal of Asian Studies |date=August 2012 |volume=71 |issue=3 |pages=627–653 |doi=10.1017/S0021911812000629 |s2cid=162917965 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Shaw|title=A Sketch of the Turki Language: As Spoken in Eastern Turkistan ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dw7gAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA102|year=1878|pages=102–109|access-date=26 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821113649/https://books.google.com/books?id=dw7gAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA102|archive-date=21 August 2016|url-status=live}}{{cite book|author=Asiatic Society (Calcutta, India)|title=Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0G0yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA325|year=1877|pages=325–347|access-date=26 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170109085728/https://books.google.com/books?id=0G0yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA325|archive-date=9 January 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite book|title=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal|url=https://archive.org/details/journalasiatics03benggoog|year=1877|publisher=G.H. Rouse, Baptist Mission Press|pages=[https://archive.org/details/journalasiatics03benggoog/page/n334 325]–347|access-date=26 July 2016}}{{cite book|author=Robert Shaw|title=A Sketch of the Túrkí Language as Spoken in Eastern Túrkistán (Káshgar & Yarkand) Together with a Collection of Extracts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JlpIAQAAMAAJ&q=nucta+rashid|year=1875|publisher=Printed at the Central jail Press|pages=i–xxix}}</ref> The Turki language ''Tadhkirah i Khwajagan'' was written by M. Sadiq Kashghari.<ref name="Storey2002">{{cite book|author=C. A. Storey|title=Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VleM1pOXgdQC&q=Semyonov+chahars&pg=PA1026|date=February 2002|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-947593-38-4|pages=1026–}}</ref> Between the 1600s and 1900s many Turki-language tazkirah manuscripts devoted to stories of local sultans, martyrs and saints were written.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/review/xinjiang-stories-nile-green-rian-thum-sacred-routes-uyghur-history|title=Xinjiang Stories – Los Angeles Review of Books|date=3 December 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406002413/https://lareviewofbooks.org/review/xinjiang-stories-nile-green-rian-thum-sacred-routes-uyghur-history|archive-date=6 April 2016}}</ref> Perhaps the most famous and best-loved pieces of modern Uyghur literature are [[Abdurehim Ötkür]]'s ''Iz'', ''Oyghanghan Zimin'', [[Zordun Sabir]]'s ''Anayurt'' and [[Ziya Samedi]]'s novels ''Mayimkhan'' and ''Mystery of the years''.{{Citation needed|date=March 2008}}

Exiled Uyghur writers and poets, such as [[Muyesser Abdul'ehed]], use literature to highlight the issues facing their community.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Freeman|first=Joshua L.|title=Uighur Poets on Repression and Exile|url=https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/08/13/uighur-poets-on-repression-and-exile/|access-date=9 November 2020|website=The New York Review of Books|date=13 August 2020 |language=en}}</ref>