Islamic thought in China : Sino-Muslim intellectual evolution from the 17th to the 21st century / edited by Jonathan Lipman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lipman, Jonathan, Author.

Contributor:

Lipman, Jonathan Neaman, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--China--History.

Islam.

Muslims--China--Intellectual life.

Muslims.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 268 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

Summary:

The essays in this volume tell the stories of Chinese Muslim intellectuals trying to create satisfying, safe and coherent lives at the intersection of two potentially conflicting cultures.

Contents:

Contents

Glossary of East Asian Names

Glossary of East Asian Terms

The Contributors

Editor’s Introduction: Four Centuries of Islamic Thought in Chinese

PART I THE QING EMPIRE (1636–1912)

1 A Proper Place for God: Ma Zhu’s Chinese-Islamic Cosmogenesis

2 Liu Zhi: The Great Integrator of Chinese Islamic Thought

3 Tianfang Sanzijing: Exchanges and Changes in China’s Reception of Islamic La

4 The Multiple Meanings of Pilgrimage in Sino-Islamic Thought

PART II MODERN CHINA

5 Ethnicity or Religion? Republican-Era Chinese Debates on Islam and Muslims

6 Selective Learning from the Middle East: The Case of Sino-Muslim Students at al-Azhar University

7 Secularisation and Modernisation of Islam in China: Educational Reform, Japanese Occupation and the Disappearance of Persian Learning

8 Between ‘Abd al-Wahhab and Liu Zhi: Chinese Muslim Intellectuals at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-1493-1

1-4744-2645-X

1-4744-2246-2

1-4744-0228-3