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Islamic China : an Asian history / Rian Thum.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thum, Rian Richard, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Muslims--China--History.
- Muslims.
- Islam--China--History.
- Islam.
- Muslims--China--Intellectual life.
- Chinese--Ethnic identity--History.
- Chinese.
- China--Ethnic relations--History.
- China.
- China--Religion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2025.
- Language Note:
- English; some words and phrases in Chinese.
- Summary:
- Islamic China traces the interlinked stories of twenty Chinese Muslims across the centuries, spanning ethnic groups, sects, and imperial borders. Collectively, their experiences point to the ordinariness of Islam within China, even as Muslims have been subject to centuries of minoritization under myriad Chinese regimes.
- Contents:
- A Bird's-Eye View
- Two Ordinary Books: Ma Lianyuan and Nur al-Haqq
- The Matrix of the Ordinary: The Textual World of Nineteenth-Century Yunnan
- Extraordinary Books: Wang Daiyu and Long Ahong
- The Matrix of the Extraordinary: Inter-Asian Muslim Networks of the Seventeenth Century
- Origins Identify: Lan Xu, Manṣūr Ma Xuezhi, Muḥammad Yūsuf, and Ma Qirong
- Origins Reveal: The Naqshbandiyya Mujaddidiyya
- Origins Move: Diasporas of the Hijaz, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Northwest China
- Origins Distort: Myths of the Han Kitab
- Origin Without Essence: Ascription and Transmission in Islamic China.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-30226-5
- 0-674-30227-3
- 9780674302273
- OCLC:
- 1545352375
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