Dr. Nur Luke was a Uyghur Bible translator from

Hotan Hotan (also known as Gosthana, Gaustana, Godana, Godaniya, Khotan, Hetian, Hotien) is a major oasis town in southwestern Xinjiang, an autonomous region in Western China. The city proper of Hotan broke off from the larger Hotan County to become ...

who converted to Christianity. He fled Xinjiang in the 1930s and together with

Gustaf Ahlbert Gustaf Albert Ahlbert (26 January 1884 – 1943) was a Swedish missionary and linguist. He served with the Mission Union of Sweden in Chinese Turkestan (present day Xinjiang). Ahlbert had a competent knowledge of Hebrew, Greek, Arabic A ...

and Oskar Hermannson finished the translation of the Uyghur Bible in

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. This was published by the

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in 1946. Luke also wrote about the social structure of the Uyghur, noting 97-98 percent illiteracy.Community Matters in Xinjiang, 1880-1949: Towards a Historical Anthropology of the Uyghur
Ildikó Bellér-Hann, BRILL, 2008, p. 327

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