Author's Biography
ABLAHAT IBRAHIM received his Master's degree in Central Asian Turkic Languages and Literature from Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China. He earned his Ph.D from the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington, in the field of Turkic Studies. Dr. Ibrahim has lectured in Turkic linguistics and literature at Xinjiang University, and has taught Kazakh and Uzbek at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington. Research interests include comparative Turkic linguistics, ancient and contemporary written Central Asian Turkic literature, and oral literature of the Turkic peoples of Central Asia.
