Islam and Chinese society: genealogies, lineage and local communities

"This book explores the long history in China of Chinese Muslims, known as the Hui people, and regarded as a minority, though in fact they are distinguished by religion rather than ethnicity. It shows how over time Chinese Muslims adopted Chinese practices as these evolved in wider Chinese soci...

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Weitere Verfasser: Ma, Jianxiong (HerausgeberIn), Abt, Oded (HerausgeberIn), Yao, Jide (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2021
Ausgabe:First issued in paperback
Schriftenreihe:The historical anthropology of Chinese society series 6
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Zusammenfassung:"This book explores the long history in China of Chinese Muslims, known as the Hui people, and regarded as a minority, though in fact they are distinguished by religion rather than ethnicity. It shows how over time Chinese Muslims adopted Chinese practices as these evolved in wider Chinese society, practices such as constructing and recording patrilinear lineages, spreading genealogies, and propagating education and Confucian teaching, in the case of the Hui through the use of Chinese texts in the teaching of Islam at mosques. The book also examines much else, including the system of certification of mosques, the development of Sufi orders, the cultural adaptation of Islam at the local level, and relations between Islam and Confucianism, between the state and local communities, and between the educated Muslim elite and the Confucian literati. Overall, the book shows how extensively Chinese Muslims have been deeply integrated within a multi-cultural Chinese society"--
Beschreibung:Enthält Beiträge von drei Konferenzen
Fälschlicherweise im Buch als Teil folgender Serie angegeben: Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
Beschreibung:xv, 163 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9781032236636