Muslim transnationalism in modern China: debates on Hui identity and Islamic reform

"This book explores how a minority Muslim community in twentieth-century China connected intellectually to other zones of Islam; simultaneously worked to redefine its identity within a largely non-Muslim country; and negotiated with the majority ethnic group, other Muslim communities, and the h...

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1. Verfasser: Eroglu, Zeyneb Hale (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Columbia University Press [2025]
Schriftenreihe:Columbia studies in international and global history
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Zusammenfassung:"This book explores how a minority Muslim community in twentieth-century China connected intellectually to other zones of Islam; simultaneously worked to redefine its identity within a largely non-Muslim country; and negotiated with the majority ethnic group, other Muslim communities, and the hegemonic discourse of the Nationalist government. This book thus mainly investigates the thought of Chinese Muslim intellectuals who either visited or studied in other Muslim countries or had a keen interest in transmitting the knowledge produced about Islam and Muslims by reformist circles around the world. Their transnational interests focused mainly, but not exclusively, on Egyptian, Turkish, and Indian reformulations of nation and Islam. These transnational Chinese Muslims played a pivotal role in Chinese Muslim intellectual and organizational activism, dedicated to "awakening" the Chinese Muslims whom they considered to be uneducated "blind followers" and whom they considered to be what the author calls "reluctant citizens." In order to devise the best interpretation of Islam, one that would fit the modern conditions of China, these intellectuals selected, adopted, and appropriated ideas and materials from different sources of Islam and various perspectives of the reformists, in conversation with the Han intellectuals and policymakers. In so doing, they sought to transform Muslims into agents of change in China as the carriers of universal Islamic principles. By putting Muslim spirit and ideals into practice, these reformers sought to benefit China in its struggle for equal status in the international world"--
Beschreibung:xi, 337 Seiten 23 cm

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