Alimtohte SHIHO (Alim Tohti Uyghur), is a Uyghur scholar, Research Fellow at (NIHU) Center for Innovative Research and an Assistant Professor at Tohoku University, Japan. In 2020 he was a visiting researcher at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. He is the author of History of Islamic Studies in Japan―Volume on China, Shumpusha Publishing (2018), History of Islamic Studies in China, Akashi Publishing (2019). Criticism and reconstruction of Chinese Confucianism by Japanese Confucianism, Akashi Publishing (2020), Islam in China: A History of European and American Scholarship, Gorgias Press (2021), Islam and Confucianism, Akashi Publishing (2022), and Islam in China and the Islamic World: A History of Chinese Scholarship, Gorgias Press (2024).