Soviet Central Asia added Russian suffixes to Russify their surnames. 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. Some pre-Islamic Uyghur names are preserved in Turpan and Qumul. The government has banned some two dozen Islamic names. See also East Turkistan Organization Eretnids Hui-Uyghur tension List of Uyghurs Meshrep Tibetan Muslims Turkistan Islamic Party Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria Uyghur genocide Uyghur timeline Uyghurs in Beijing Xinjiang conflict Explanatory notes References Citations General and cited sources Attribution Further reading Chinese Cultural Studies: Ethnography of China: Brief Guide acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu Beckwith, Christopher I. (2009). Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present. Princeton University Press. . Findley, Carter Vaughn. 2005. The Turks in World History. Oxford University Press. , (pbk.) Hessler, Peter. Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China. New York: Harper Perennial, 2006. Human Rights in China: China, Minority Exclusion, Marginalization and Rising Tensions, London, Minority Rights Group International, 2007 Kamberi, Dolkun. 2005. Uyghurs and Uyghur identity. Sino-Platonic papers, no. 150. Philadelphia, PA: Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania. Millward, James A. and Nabijan Tursun, (2004) "Political History and Strategies of Control, 1884–1978" in Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland, ed. S. Frederick Starr. Published by M. E. Sharpe. . Rall, Ted. Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East? New York: NBM Publishing, 2006. Rudelson, Justin Ben-Adam, Oasis identities: Uyghur nationalism along China's Silk Road, New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Thum, Rian. The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History (Harvard University Press; 2014) 323 pages Tyler, Christian. (2003). Wild West China: The Untold Story of a Frontier Land. John Murray, London. . External links Map share of ethnic by county of China Xinjiang Video Project Articles containing video clips Ethnic groups officially recognized by China Islam in China Muslim communities of China Turkic peoples of Asia