Ildikó Bellér-Hann, Ph.D. (1989) in Turkic Studies, University of Cambridge, is researcher at the Martin-Luther University, Halle/Wittenberg. She has published extensively on the Turkic speaking peoples and cultures of Xinjiang, North-East Turkey and Central Asia.

"...is a pioneering effort in its historical anthropological approach. Her use of early ethnographic and primary accounts of domestic and religious life in Xinjiang reveals the importance of community in Uyghur social relations during the period in question. (...) As such Community Matters provides a useful historical foundation for further scholarship on contemporary Uyghur affairs." - James D. Frankel, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, in: Religious Studies Review, Vol. 37 (2011)

Ildikó Bellér-Hann, Ph.D. (1989) in Turkic Studies, University of Cambridge, is researcher at the Martin-Luther University, Halle/Wittenberg. She has published extensively on the Turkic speaking peoples and cultures of Xinjiang, North-East Turkey and Central Asia.

"...is a pioneering effort in its historical anthropological approach. Her use of early ethnographic and primary accounts of domestic and religious life in Xinjiang reveals the importance of community in Uyghur social relations during the period in question. (...) As such Community Matters provides a useful historical foundation for further scholarship on contemporary Uyghur affairs." - James D. Frankel, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, in: Religious Studies Review, Vol. 37 (2011)

Ildikó Bellér-Hann, Ph.D. (1989) in Turkic Studies, University of Cambridge, is researcher at the Martin-Luther University, Halle/Wittenberg. She has published extensively on the Turkic speaking peoples and cultures of Xinjiang, North-East Turkey and Central Asia.

"...is a pioneering effort in its historical anthropological approach. Her use of early ethnographic and primary accounts of domestic and religious life in Xinjiang reveals the importance of community in Uyghur social relations during the period in question. (...) As such Community Matters provides a useful historical foundation for further scholarship on contemporary Uyghur affairs." - James D. Frankel, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, in: Religious Studies Review, Vol. 37 (2011)