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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Dr. Nur Luke''' was an [[Uyghur language|Uyghur]] Bible translator from [[Hotan]] who converted to Christianity.<ref>{{cite book|author=Ildikó Bellér-Hann|title=Community Matters in Xinjiang, 1880-1949: Towards a Historical Anthropology of the Uyghur|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cF4lMj8skvoC&q=uyghur+pressure+marriage&pg=PA238|year=2008|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-16675-2|pages=238–}}</ref> He fled Xinjiang in the 1930s and together with [[Gustaf Ahlbert]] and Oskar Hermannson finished the translation of the Uyghur Bible in [[India]]. This was published by the [[British and Foreign Bible Society]] in 1946. Luke also wrote about the social structure of the Uyghur, noting 97-98 percent illiteracy.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=cF4lMj8skvoC&pg=PA278&lpg=PA278&dq=nur+luke&source=bl&ots=qYBLpF9bel&sig=4_GsQ44gSJm1pg96FyBhQWRXWkI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YFXnT5XtLeTB2QX_va36CA&ved=0CFYQ6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=nur%20luke&f=false Community Matters in Xinjiang, 1880-1949: Towards a Historical Anthropology of the Uyghur], Ildikó Bellér-Hann, BRILL, 2008, p. 327</ref><br />
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*{{Cite book|last=Nicklasson |first=Gösta |title=Sett och hört i Indien |year=1953 |publisher=Missionsförbundets förlag |location=Stockholm |language=Swedish |oclc=186131091}}{{Page needed|date=September 2010}}<br />
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* [http://biphost.spray.se/margaretahook/1953_Dr_Nur-Luke.jpg Image of Dr. Nur Luke]<br />
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