China's early mosques / Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman, author.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in Islamic art

Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mosques--China--History.

Mosques.

Islamic architecture--China--History.

Islamic architecture.

Architecture--China--Islamic influences.

Architecture.

Architecture--Islamic influences.

History.

China.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 331 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, [Scotland] : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]

System Details:

text file

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:

Machine generated contents note: chapter 1 Muslims, Mosques and Chinese Architecture

Muslims and Other West Asians in China before the Tenth Century

The Buddhist Model

The Chinese Model

Architectural Requirements of Muslim Worship

Mosque, Masjid, Monastery, Temple

Scholarly and Other Writing about Mosques in China

chapter 2 China's Oldest Mosques

Quanzhou's International Community

Shengyousi

Guangzhou's International Community

Huaishengsi

chapter 3 China's Other Early Mosques

Yangzhou

Hangzhou

Other Pre-fifteenth-century Mosques

chapter 4 Mongols, Mosques and Mausoleums

Saidianchi

Muslim Tombs in Yuan China

Yuan Observatories

chapter 5 Xi'an and Nanjing: Great Mosques and Great Ming Patrons

Huajuexiangsi, the Great Mosque in Xi'an

Jingjuesi in Nanjing

Two Famous Ming Muslims Buried in Nanjing

chapter 6 Ox Street Mosque and Muslim Worship in or near Beijing

Beijing Dongsi Mosque

Mosques in Tongzhou

Note continued: Mosques in Dachang Hui Autonomous County

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

Jining To Tianjin

Hebei West of the Grand Canal

Shanxi

Henan

Anhui

Jiangsu and Zhejiang beyond the Four Earliest Mosques

chapter 8 Mosques and Qubbas in Ningxia, Gansu and Qinghai

Ningxia

Gansu

Mosques near Xining

chapter 9 Xinjiang: Architecture of Qing China and Uyghur Central Asia

Xinjiang Islamic Architecture in Context: the Qing Architectural Enterprise

chapter 10 Mosque, Synagogue, Church: Architecture of Monotheism in China

Kaifeng Synagogue

Church Architecture

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-318) and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman. China's early mosques.

ISBN:

9781474472852

1474472850

OCLC:

1145341149

Publisher Number:

10.3366/j.ctvxcrp18

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