China's early mosques / Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in Islamic art

Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mosques--China.

Mosques.

Architecture, Chinese.

China.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 331 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]

Summary:

This book explains how the worship requirements of the mosque and the Chinese architectural system converged. What happens when a monotheistic, aniconic, foreign religion needs a space in which to worship in China, a civilisation with a building tradition that has been largely unchanged for several millennia? The story of this extraordinary convergence begins in the 7th century and continues under the Chinese rule of Song and Ming, and the non Chinese rule of the Mongols and Manchus, each with a different political and religious agenda. This book explains that mosques, and ultimately Islam, have survived in China because the Chinese architectural system, though unchanging, is adaptable: it can accommodate the religious requirements of Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism and Islam. It includes case studies of China's most important surviving mosques (including 30 premodern mosques, the tourist mosques in Xi'an and Beijing, and the Uygur mosques in Kashgar). It aims to build an understanding of the mosque at the most fundamental level, asking what is really necessary for Muslim worship space. It presents Chinese architecture as uniquely uniform in appearance and uniquely adaptable to something as foreign as Islam.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Muslims, Mosques and Chinese Architecture 1

Muslims and Other West Asians in China before the Tenth Century 1

The Buddhist Model 9

The Chinese Model 14

Architectural Requirements of Muslim Worship 21

Mosque, Masjid, Monastery, Temple 26

Scholarly and Other Writing about Mosques in China 29

Chapter 2 China's Oldest Mosques 34

Quanzhou's International Community 35

Shengyousi 38

Guangzhou's International Community 57

Huaishengsi 59

Chapter 3 China's Other Early Mosques 75

Yangzhou 75

Hangzhou 82

Other Pre-fifteenth-century Mosques 89

Chapter 4 Mongols, Mosques and Mausoleums 92

Saidianchi 97

Muslim Tombs in Yuan China 99

Yuan Observatories 108

Chapter 5 Xi'an and Nanjing: Great Mosques and Great Ming Patrons 119

Huajuexiangsi, the Great Mosque in Xi'an 120

Jingjuesi in Nanjing 130

Two Famous Ming Muslims Buried in Nanjing 132

Chapter 6 Ox Street Mosque and Muslim Worship in or near Beijing 138

Beijing Dongsi Mosque 142

Mosques in Tongzhou 147

Mosques in Dachang Hui Autonomous County 147

Chapter 7 China's Most Important Yuan and Ming Mosques: Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang 154

Jining To Tianjin 154

Hebei West of the Grand Canal 173

Shanxi 179

Henan 188

Anhui 198

Jiangsu and Zhejiang beyond the Four Earliest Mosques 203

Chapter 8 Mosques and Qubbas in Ningxia, Gansu and Qinghai 212

Ningxia 215

Gansu 224

Mosques near Xining 249

Chapter 9 Xinjiang: Architecture of Qing China and Uyghur Central Asia 259

Xinjiang Islamic Architecture in Context: the Qing Architectural Enterprise 271

Chapter 10 Mosque, Synagogue, Church: Architecture of Monotheism in China 275

Kaifeng Synagogue 275

Church Architecture 279

Chapter 11 Conclusion: the Chinese Mosque in the Twenty-first Century 287.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780748670413

0748670416

OCLC:

917363149

Publisher Number:

99967280714