Rian Thum

Rian Thum, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Manchester who writes on Uyghur and Chinese Muslim history. He explores Persian and Arabic sources that reshape understandings of Chinese Islam. Short takes on the Hui and Uyghur communities, transregional travel and book networks, and how Muslim education and languages evolved across the Ming to Republican eras.

Rian Thum, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Manchester and author known for Uyghur scholarship, explores Chinese Muslim lives across Ming to Republican eras. He follows pilgrims, merchants, and scholars. Topics include languages of Muslim texts, transregional diasporas, educational reforms, and detective-like archival book hunting.

Rian Thum, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Manchester and scholar of Chinese Muslim and Uyghur history. He traces pilgrims, merchants, and scholars across Ming to Republican eras. He discusses mosque libraries, multilingual texts, diaspora networks, and how biographies reveal changing identities. He also explores translation of Islamic ideas into Chinese thought and the authority of travel.