The Tarikh-I Ḥamidi: A Late-Qing Uyghur History

by Donald Keene

Book Overview

The Tarikh-i Ḥamidi is an epic and tragic history from the region of Xinjiang in northwest China, the homeland of the Muslim-majority Uyghur people. Written in the early twentieth century, it chronicles a mass rebellion by the Muslims of Xinjiang against the China-based Qing empire from its beginnings in 1864 to the Qing reconquest of 1877 and its aftermath. Its author, Musa Sayrami, was an eyewitness to and participant in the rebellion,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231210035
• ISBN13: 9780231210034
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"