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Chinese gleams of sufi light : Wang Tai-yü's great learning of the pure and real and Liu Chih's Displaying the concealment of the real realm ; with a new translation of Jāmī's Lawāʾiḥ from the Persian by William C. Chittick / Sachiko Murata ; with a foreword by Tu Weiming.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murata, Sachiko, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sufism--Doctrine.
- Sufism.
- Islam--China.
- Islam.
- China.
- Wang, Daiyu, active 17th century. Qing zhen da xue.
- Wang, Daiyu.
- Liu, Zhi, approximately 1662-1730. Zhen jing zhao wei.
- Liu, Zhi.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 264 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light investigates, for the first time in a Western language, the manner in which the Muslim scholars of China adapted the Chinese tradition to their own needs during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The book surveys the 1400-year history of Islam in China and explores why the four books translated from Islamic languages into Chinese before the twentieth century were all Persian Sufi texts. The author also looks carefully at the two most important Muslim authors of books in the Chinese language, Wang Tai-yu and Liu Chih. Murata shows how they assimilated Confucian social teachings and Neo-Confucian metaphysics, as well as Buddhism and Taoism, into Islamic thought.
- Contents:
- 1. Chinese-Language Islam 13
- The Essentials of Islam 14
- The Chinese Language 17
- Wang Tai-yu 19
- Liu Chih 24
- The Arabic Translation of Liu Chih's Philosophy 28
- Translations into Chinese 31
- The Neo-Confucian Background 35
- 2. The Works of Wang Tai-yu 43
- The True Answers 44
- The Real Commentary on the True Teaching 48
- Adam and Eve: From Chapter Two of the Real Commentary 60
- The Real Solicitude 64
- 3. Wang Tai-yu's Great Learning 69
- The Chinese Background 70
- The Islamic Concepts 74
- 4. The Great Learning of the Pure and Real 81
- Synopsis: Comprehensive Statement 84
- The Real One 89
- The Numerical One 93
- The Embodied One 96
- 5. Liu Chih's Translation of Lawaih 113
- The Oneness of Existence 116
- Liu Chih's Appropriation of Lawaih 121
- The Translations 126
- 6. Gleams 128
- 7. Displaying the Concealment of the Real Realm 129.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-246) and indexes.
- Contains:
- Jāmī, 1414-1492. Lavāyiḥ. English & Persian
- Wang, Daiyu, active 17th century. Qing zhen da xue. English.
- Liu, Zhi, approximately 1662-1730. Zhen jing zhao wei. English.
- ISBN:
- 0791446379
- 0791446387
- OCLC:
- 43287131
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