Editing Uyghurs (section)

===Names===
Since the arrival of Islam, most Uyghurs have used "Arabic names", but traditional Uyghur names and names of other origin are still used by some.<ref name="Bellér-Hann2007 5">{{cite book|author=Ildikó Bellér-Hann|title=Situating the Uyghurs Between China and Central Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NKCU3BdeBbEC&pg=PA113|year=2007|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-0-7546-7041-4|pages=113–|access-date=31 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170109080823/https://books.google.com/books?id=NKCU3BdeBbEC&pg=PA113|archive-date=9 January 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> After the establishment of the Soviet Union, many Uyghurs who studied in Soviet Central Asia added Russian suffixes to Russify their surnames.<ref name="Bellér-Hann2007 6">{{cite book|author=Ildikó Bellér-Hann|title=Situating the Uyghurs Between China and Central Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NKCU3BdeBbEC&pg=PA115|year=2007|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-0-7546-7041-4|pages=115–|access-date=31 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822111347/https://books.google.com/books?id=NKCU3BdeBbEC&pg=PA115|archive-date=22 August 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Names from Russia and Europe are used in Qaramay and Ürümqi by part of the population of city-dwelling Uyghurs. Others use names with hard-to-understand etymologies, with the majority dating from the Islamic era and being of Arabic or Persian derivation.<ref name="Bellér-Hann2007 7">{{cite book|author=Ildikó Bellér-Hann|title=Situating the Uyghurs Between China and Central Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NKCU3BdeBbEC&pg=PA117|year=2007|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-0-7546-7041-4|pages=117–|access-date=31 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822014537/https://books.google.com/books?id=NKCU3BdeBbEC&pg=PA117|archive-date=22 August 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Some pre-Islamic Uyghur names are preserved in [[Turpan]] and [[Qumul]].<ref name="Bellér-Hann2007 5"/> The government has banned some two dozen Islamic names.<ref name=nyt2016 />