Islam in China : religion, ethnicity, culture, and politics / Raphael Israeli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Israeli, Raphael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--China.

Islam.

Muslims.

Social conditions.

Islam and state.

China.

Islam and state--China.

Muslims--China--Social conditions.

China--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

xi, 339 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2002]

Summary:

"Are they really Muslims?" Islam in China reveals the struggle for identity of the small yet vital Muslim community of China, a little-studied minority on the fringes of the Islamic world now thrust into the spotlight by the opening of China to the world and the rise of independent Muslim republics on China's western borders.

Contents:

Muslims in China: incompatibility between Islam and the Chinese order

Ahung and Literatus: a Muslim elite in Confucian China

Muslim minorities under non-Islamic rule

Ethnicity, religion, nationality, and social conflict: the case of Chinese Muslims

Myth as memory: Muslims in China between myth and history

Established Islam and marginal Islam: from eclecticism to syncretism

Islamization and sinicization in Chinese Islam

Naqshbandiyya and factionalism in Chinese Islam

Is there Shi'a in Chinese Islam?

Translation as exegesis: the opening Sūra of the Qur'ān in Chinese

Muslim rebellions in Muslim China: a part of, or a counterpart to, the Chinese revolution

The Islamic republics in central Asia and the Middle East

The cross battles the crescent: a century of missionary work among Chinese Muslims (1850-1950)

The Muslim minority in the people's republic of China

A new wave of Muslim revivalism in China

Al-sin

Islam in China

Islam in the Chinese environment.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-324) and index.

ISBN:

073910375X

OCLC:

49576635