Chinese heirs to Muhammad: writing Islamic history in early modern China
Muhammad -- Perfected Beings -- Tombs -- Empire -- Continuity.
| Published in: | The modern Muslim world |
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| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Piscataway, NJ
Gorgias Press
2020
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| In: |
The modern Muslim world (7)
Year: 2020 |
| Series/Journal: | The modern Muslim world
7 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
China
/ Islam
/ Hui
/ Uighur
/ Muslim
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| RelBib Classification: | BJ Islam |
| Further subjects: | B
Muslims (China)
Historiography
B Muslims ; Historiography B China B Ma, Yunhua (Historian) B Liu, Jielian (active 1670-1724) B Lan, Xu (active 19th century) B Li, Huanyi (active 1874) B Liu, Jielian B Hui (Chinese people) (China) Historiography |
| Summary: | Muhammad -- Perfected Beings -- Tombs -- Empire -- Continuity. "How was the past imagined by Hui Muslims in late nineteenth and early twentieth century China? Chen argues that this was a productive time for historical thought, bookended by the establishment of a robust Sino-Islamic knowledge base by Liu Zhi on one end and Republican China on the other end. This book explores histories that unify vast stretches of time and place: from genesis to the modern era, from Arabia to China. Hui historians create narratives that transform China into an Islamic space and Islam into a Chinese religion"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1463239254 |