Islam in China

Religion, Ethnicity, Culture, and Politics

By (author) Raphael Israeli

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Publication date:

06 August 2002

Length of book:

352 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9780739156612

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

'Are they really Muslims?' Islam in China reveals the struggle for identity of the small yet vital Muslim community of China, a little studied minority on the fringes of the Islamic world now thrust into the spotlight by the opening of China to the world and the rise of independent Muslim republics on China's western borders. Both timely and important, the multifaceted essays-_ collection of over twenty years of Raphael Israeli's scholarship on Chinese Muslims_offer detailed insight into the relationship between China's non-Muslim majority and an increasingly self-confident guest culture. The work uncovers a history of uneasy ethnic, philosophical, and ideological coexistence, the gradual sinification of the Chinese Muslim creed, and the increasing accommodation of Islam by a modern, westernizing China. In addition, it highlights a religious group riddled with sectarianism; factional rifts that reveal the doctrinal, social, and political diversity at the core of Chinese Islam.

Chapter 1 Identity and Survival
Chapter 2 Muslims in China: Incompatibility between Islam and the Chinese Order
Chapter 3 Ahung and Literatus: A Muslim Elite in Confucian China
Chapter 4 Muslim Minorities under Non-Islamic Rule
Chapter 5 Ethnicity, Religion, Nationality, and Social Conflict: The Case of Chinese Muslims
Chapter 6 Myth as Memory: Muslims in China between Myth and History
Chapter 7 Normative Islam and its Derivatives
Chapter 8 Established Islam and Marginal Islam: From Eclecticism to Syncretism
Chapter 9 Islamization and Sinicization in Chinese Islam
Chapter 10 Naqshbandiyya and Factionalism in Chinese Islam
Chapter 11 Is there Shi'a in Chinese Islam?
Chapter 12 Translation as Exegesis: The Opening Sura of the Quran in Chinese
Chapter 13 Unrest and Rebellion
Chapter 14 Muslim Rebellions in Muslim China: A
Chapter of, or a Counter
Chapter to, the Chinese Revolution
Chapter 15 The Islamic Republics in Central Asia and the Middle East
Chapter 16 Into the Modern World
Chapter 17 The Cross Battles the Crescent: A Century of Missionary Work Among Chinese Muslims (1850-1950)
Chapter 18 The Muslim Minority in the People's Republic of China
Chapter 19 A New Wave of Muslim Revivalism in China
Chapter 20 Surveys
Chapter 21 al-Sin
Chapter 22 Islam in China
Chapter 23 Islam in China
Chapter 24 Islam in the Chinese Environment
Chapter 25 China's Muslims