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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826326003321

Autore

Lipman Jonathan Neaman

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-4744-1493-1

1-4744-2645-X

1-4744-2246-2

1-4744-0228-3

Descrizione fisica

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

Classificazione

BE 8210

Disciplina

951.00882971

Soggetti

Islam - History - China - History

Muslims - Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.