Yaqup Istipan

Yaqup Istipan (Uyghur:ﻳﺎﻗﯘﭖ ﺋﯩﺴﺘﯩﭙﺎﻥ) was a Uyghur author.

Because he was a Christian he was forced to flee Xinjiang. He later wrote about his childhood, and about why he had to be "a refugee for Christ" in his autobiography.

Sources and Bibliography

Jacob Stephen, Flykting för Kristi skull, Stockholm: Missionsförbundets Förlag 1947
Yaqup Istipan, English-Uygur Wordbook
rfa.org
John Hultvall, Mission and Revolution in Central Asia
Gunilla Törnvall, From Khotan and Kashgar

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