Raphael Israeli

Islam in China (eBook, ePUB)

Religion, Ethnicity, Culture, and Politics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739156612
• Artikelnr.: 39253412

Autorenporträt

Raphael Israeli has taught Islamic, Chinese, and Middle Eastern history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. A graduate of Hebrew University in history and Arabic literature, he earned a Ph.D. in Chinese and Islamic history from the University of California, Berkeley. Now retired, he has been a Fellow of the Harry Truman Research Institute at Hebrew University and the Jerusalem Center since the1970s. He is the author of more than 100 books and 100 articles.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by G.E. Gorman, Advisory Editor
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Islam in China
Annotated Guide to Sino-Islamic Literature
Bibliographies and Inscriptions
General Works
Imperial China (to 1911)
Republican China (1911-1949)
The People's Republic (since 1949)
Culture, Religion, and Theology
Social Discontent and Political Upheaval
Local Reports
Jews of China
Missionary Reports
Appendix: Journals
Author Index
Title Index
Subject Index