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Russian and East European Institute 
Edmund Waite
Edmund Waite is currently a researcher at the School of Lifelong Education and International Development, Institute of Education, London University. He has a background in the anthropological study of Islam as well as in applied research on education in the UK and Central Asia. His PhD in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University, based on 15 months fieldwork conducted in the Uyghur language in the mid-1990s, focused on the impact of the state in shaping religious practices amongst Uyghurs in Kashgar, Xinjiang, China. He has subsequently carried out post-doctoral fieldwork in 2003 and 2004 on the growth of trans-national religious influences on Xinjiang. Edmund Waite’s publications on the Uyghurs include articles published in 2006 on religious knowledge and authority in Kashgar (Central Asian Survey) and attitudes to Sufism (Inner Asia). He has recently submitted a monograph for publication with Routledge entitled ‘Muslims on the Edge of China: religious knowledge and authority amongst the Uyghurs of Xinjiang’.
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