Israeli, Raphael.

Islam in China religion, ethnicity, culture, and politics / [electronic resource] : Raphael Israeli. - Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2002. - 1 online resource (xi, 339 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Muslims in China: incompatibility between Islam and the Chinese order -- Ahung and Literatus: a Muslim elite in Confucian China -- Muslim minorities under non-Islamic rule -- Ethnicity, religion, nationality, and social conflict: the case of Chinese Muslims -- Myth as memory: Muslims in China between myth and history -- Established Islam and marginal Islam: from eclecticism to syncretism -- Islamization and sinicization in Chinese Islam -- Naqshbandiyya and factionalism in Chinese Islam -- Is there Shi'a in Chinese Islam? -- Translation as exegesis: the opening Sūra of the Qur'ān in Chinese -- Muslim rebellions in Muslim China: a part of, or a counterpart to, the Chinese revolution -- The Islamic republics in central Asia and the Middle East -- The cross battles the crescent: a century of missionary work among Chinese Muslims (1850-1950) -- The Muslim minority in the people's republic of China -- A new wave of Muslim revivalism in China -- Al-sin -- Islam in China -- Islam in the Chinese environment.

9780739156612 (electronic bk.) 0739156616 (electronic bk.)


Islam--China.
Islam and state--China.
Muslims--Social conditions.--China
Islam.
RELIGION / Fundamentalism
RELIGION / Islam / History


China--Ethnic relations.


Electronic books.

BP63.C5 / I87 2002eb

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