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Subject(s)

• Islam—China—History [Browse]
• Muslims—China—Intellectual life [Browse]

Editor

• Lipman, Jonathan Neaman [Browse]

Summary note

"Tells the stories of Chinese Muslims trying to create coherent lives at the intersection of two potentially conflicting cultures. How can people belong simultaneously to two cultures, originating in two different places and expressed in two different languages, without alienating themselves from either? Muslims have lived in the Chinese culture area for 1400 years, and the intellectuals among them have long wrestled with this problem. Unlike Persian, Turkish, Urdu, or Malay, the Chinese language never adopted vocabulary from Arabic to enable a precise understanding of Islam's religious and philosophical foundations. Islam thus had to be translated into Chinese, which lacks words and arguments to justify monotheism, exclusivity, and other features of this Middle Eastern religion. Even in the 21st century, Muslims who are culturally Chinese must still justify their devotion to a single God, avoidance of pork, and their communities' distinctiveness, among other things, to sceptical non-Muslim neighbours and an increasingly intrusive state"-- Publisher's Web site.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-259) and index.

Source of description

Print version record.

Contents

Editor's introduction: Four centuries of Islamic thought in Chinese / Jonathan Lipman - Part I. The Qing Empire - A proper place for God: Ma Zhu's Chinese-Islamic cosmogenesis / Jonathan Lipman - Liu Zhi: the great integrator of Chinese Islamic thought / James D. Frankel - Tianfang Sanzijing: exchanges and changes in China's reception of Islamic law / Roberta Tontini - The multiple meanings of pilgrimage in Sino-lslamic thought / Kristian Petersen - Part II. Modern China - Ethnicity or religion? Republican-era Chinese debates on Islam and Muslims / Wlodzimierz Cieciura - Selective learning from the Middle East: the case of Sino-Muslim students at al-Azhar University / Yufeng Mao - Secularisation and modernisation of Islam in China: educational reform, Japanese occupation and the disappearance of Persian learning / Masumi Matsumoto - Between 'Abd al-Wahhab and Liu Zhi: Chinese Muslim intellectuals at the turn of the twenty-first century / Leila Chérif-Chebbi.

Other title(s)

Sino-Muslim intellectual evolution from the 17th to the 21st century

ISBN

• 9781474402286 ((electronic bk.))
• 1474402283 ((electronic bk.))
• 1474414931
• 9781474414937

OCLC

964447337

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