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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