Islamic Thought In China

Author : Lipman Jonathan Lipman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474414937

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Islamic Thought in China by Lipman Jonathan Lipman Pdf

How can people belong simultaneously to two cultures, originating in two different places and expressed in two different languages, without alienating themselves from either? Muslims have lived in the Chinese culture area for 1400 years, and the intellectuals among them have long wrestled with this problem. Unlike Persian, Turkish, Urdu, or Malay, the Chinese language never adopted vocabulary from Arabic to enable a precise understanding of Islam's religious and philosophical foundations. Islam thus had to be translated into Chinese, which lacks words and arguments to justify monotheism, exclusivity, and other features of this Middle Eastern religion. Even in the 21st century, Muslims who are culturally Chinese must still justify their devotion to a single God, avoidance of pork, and their communities' distinctiveness, among other things, to sceptical non-Muslim neighbours and an increasingly intrusive state. a a The essays in this collection narrate the continuing translations and adaptations of Islam and Muslims in Chinese culture and society through the writings of Sino-Muslim intellectuals. Progressing chronologically and interlocking thematically, they help the reader develop a coherent understanding of the intellectual issues at stake.

Author : Jonathan Lipman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08
Category : History
ISBN : 147442645X

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Islamic Thought in China by Jonathan Lipman Pdf

"Tells the stories of Chinese Muslims trying to create coherent lives at the intersection of two potentially conflicting cultures. How can people belong simultaneously to two cultures, originating in two different places and expressed in two different languages, without alienating themselves from either? Muslims have lived in the Chinese culture area for 1400 years, and the intellectuals among them have long wrestled with this problem. Unlike Persian, Turkish, Urdu, or Malay, the Chinese language never adopted vocabulary from Arabic to enable a precise understanding of Islam's religious and philosophical foundations. Islam thus had to be translated into Chinese, which lacks words and arguments to justify monotheism, exclusivity, and other features of this Middle Eastern religion. Even in the 21st century, Muslims who are culturally Chinese must still justify their devotion to a single God, avoidance of pork, and their communities' distinctiveness--among other things--to sceptical non-Muslim neighbours and an increasingly intrusive state"--

Author : Sachiko Murata,William C. Chittick,Tu Weiming
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684170494

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The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi by Sachiko Murata,William C. Chittick,Tu Weiming Pdf

Liu Zhi (ca. 1670–1724) was one of the most important scholars of Islam in traditional China. His Tianfang xingli(Nature and Principle in Islam), the Chinese-language text translated here, focuses on the roots or principles of Islam. It was heavily influenced by several classic texts in the Sufi tradition. Liu’s approach, however, is distinguished from that of other Muslim scholars in that he addressed the basic articles of Islamic thought with Neo-Confucian terminology and categories. Besides its innate metaphysical and philosophical value, the text is invaluable for understanding how the masters of Chinese Islam straddled religious and civilizational frontiers and created harmony between two different intellectual worlds. The introductory chapters explore both the Chinese and the Islamic intellectual traditions behind Liu’s work and locate the arguments of Tianfang xingli within those systems of thought. The copious annotations to the translation explain Liu’s text and draw attention to parallels in Chinese-, Arabic-, and Persian-language works as well as differences.

Author : Nasr M Arif,Shaojin Chai
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781040047873

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Chinese Islam by Nasr M Arif,Shaojin Chai Pdf

This book explores the fascinating and complex histories of Islam and China. Meticulously researched and captivating, it provides a comprehensive history of the encounters and relationship between these two great civilizations, as well as the unique development and indigenization of Islam within China. The work looks at the early interactions between Arab Muslim traders and the Tang dynasty in the 7th century, shedding light on the establishment of the first Muslim communities in China. The narrative then progresses through subsequent dynasties, examining the ebbs and flows of Muslim influence, integration, and indigenization. It looks at the emergence of the Hui and other Muslim ethnic groups, who play a central role in the story of Chinese Islam. By delving into their customs, beliefs, and distinctive practices, the authors unveil the intricate process of indigenization, where Islam becomes deeply rooted in Chinese culture and society. One of the unique features of this collection is the nuanced analysis of the impact of major political events as well as gradual social changes on the process of adoption and transmission of Islam in China. The authors also highlight the role of economic activities, Chinese Islamic scholars, and key architectural landmarks in this multifaceted history. Part of the Global Islamic Culture series that looks at integrated and indigenized Islam, this book will be of interest to students and researchers of religion, Islamic studies, religious history, political Islam, cultural studies, Islamic law and Asian studies. It will also be useful to readers who are interested in world religions, theology and cultures.

Author : Osman Bakar
Publisher : University of Malaya Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015041663702

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Islam and Confucianism by Osman Bakar Pdf

Author : Zongping Sha,Shuchen Xiang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781666913378

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The Islamic-Confucian Synthesis in China by Zongping Sha,Shuchen Xiang Pdf

This volume examines the history of Islam in China since its arrival during the Tang dynasty. The contributors look at how Chinese Muslims created a philosophical worldview that is described and analyzed here as the "Islamic-Confucian synthesis."

Author : Sachiko Murata
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781438465074

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The First Islamic Classic in Chinese by Sachiko Murata Pdf

A translation of Wang Daiyu’s Real Commentary on the True Teaching, the first and most influential work written in the Chinese language on Islam. Published in 1642, Wang Daiyu’s Real Commentary on the True Teaching was the first significant presentation of Islam in the Chinese language by a Muslim scholar. It set the standard for the expression of Islamic theology, Sufism, and ethics in Chinese, and became the literary foundation of a school of thought that has been called “Muslim Confucianism.” In contrast to Muslim scholars writing in every other language, Wang avoided Arabic words, opting instead to reconfigure the religion in terms of Chinese concepts and categories. Employing the terminology of Neo-Confucian philosophy, his overview of Islam is thus both congenial to the mainstream Islamic tradition and reaffirms Confucian teachings about the human duty to establish harmony between heaven and earth. This book will appeal to those curious about the manner in which Islam has flourished in China over the past thousand years, as well as those interested in dialogue among religions and the significance of religious diversity.

Author : Yamin Cheng
Publisher : The Other Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Chinese
ISBN : 9789839541793

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A Chinese Life of Islam by Yamin Cheng Pdf

Author : Jonathan Neaman Lipman
Publisher : UBS Publishers' Distributors
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0295976446

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Familiar Strangers by Jonathan Neaman Lipman Pdf

List of Maps List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Purposes and Form of a Muslim History in China 1 The Frontier Ground and Peoples of Northwest China 3 2 Acculturation and Accommodation: China's Muslims to the Seventeenth Century 24 3 Connections: Muslims in the Early Qing, 1644-1781 58 4 Strategies of Resistance: Integration by Violence 103 5 Strategies of Integration: Muslims in New China 167 6 Conclusion: Familiar Strangers 212 Chinese Character Glossary 228 Bibliography 235 Index 254.

Author : Jianping Wang
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Arabic language
ISBN : 9780700706204

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中国伊斯兰教词汇表 by Jianping Wang Pdf

The most comprehensive glossary to date of Hui Muslim terms and the first to fully match the Chinese term (stated in Chinese script and pinyin) to its Arabic or Persian counterpart (stated in Arabic script with Latin transcription).

Author : Philipp Bruckmayr,Kristian Petersen,Haiyun Ma,Ross Cuthbert
Publisher : International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 23:3 by Philipp Bruckmayr,Kristian Petersen,Haiyun Ma,Ross Cuthbert Pdf

The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS) is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world:anthropology, economics, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam. Submissions are subject to a blind peer review process.

Author : Sachiko Murata
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791446379

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Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light by Sachiko Murata Pdf

The first study in English of Islamic thought in China, this book shows that this tradition was informed by both Sufism and Neo-Confucianism; translations of two classic works are included.

Author : Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684174126

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The Dao of Muhammad by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite Pdf

"This book documents an Islamic–Confucian school of scholarship that flourished, mostly in the Yangzi Delta, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Drawing on previously unstudied materials, it reconstructs the network of Muslim scholars responsible for the creation and circulation of a large corpus of Chinese Islamic written material—the so-called Han Kitab. Against the backdrop of the rise of the Manchu Qing dynasty, The Dao of Muhammad shows how the creation of this corpus, and of the scholarly network that supported it, arose in a context of intense dialogue between Muslim scholars, their Confucian social context, and China’s imperial rulers. Overturning the idea that participation in Confucian culture necessitated the obliteration of all other identities, this book offers insight into the world of a group of scholars who felt that their study of the Islamic classics constituted a rightful “school” within the Confucian intellectual landscape. These men were not the first Muslims to master the Chinese Classics. But they were the first to express themselves specifically as Chinese Muslims and to generate foundation myths that made sense of their place both within Islam and within Chinese culture."

Author : Kristian Petersen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190634346

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Interpreting Islam in China by Kristian Petersen Pdf

This book explores the Han Kitab, a corpus of early modern Chinese language Islamic texts that reinterpreted Islam through the lens of Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucian terminology.

Author : Maria Jaschok,Shui Jingjun Shui
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136838736

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The History of Women's Mosques in Chinese Islam by Maria Jaschok,Shui Jingjun Shui Pdf

This is a study of Chinese Hui Muslim women's historic and unrelenting spiritual, educational, political and gendered drive for an institutional presence in Islamic worship and leadership: 'a mosque of one's own' as a unique feature of Chinese Muslim culture. The authors place the historical origin of women's segregated religious institutions in the Chinese Islamic diaspora's fight for survival, and in their crucial contribution to the cause of ethnic/religious minority identity and solidarity. Against the presentation of complex historical developments of women's own site of worship and learning, the authors open out to contemporary problems of sexual politics within the wider society of socialist China and beyond to the history of Islam in all its cultural diversity.