1st Edition
Chinese Muslims and the Global Ummah Islamic Revival and Ethnic Identity Among the Hui of Qinghai Province
By Alexander Stewart
Copyright 2017
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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The global spread of Islamic movements and the ascendance of a Chinese state that limits religious freedom have aroused anxieties about integrating Islam and protecting religious freedom around the world. Focusing on violent movements like the so-called Islamic State and Uygur separatists in China’s Xinjiang Province threatens to drown out the alternatives presented by apolitical and inwardly... Read more
1. Xining’s Islamic Landscape 2. Old Teaching, New Teaching: A Historical Overview of Islam in China 3. Huizu 回族 Learning to be Muslim 穆斯林: 4. Rectification of Names: Imams, Mosques, Sects, Boundaries 5. Performing the Path of the Sahaba: Walking with the Tabligh Jama`at 6. Paths to Islam and Salafiyya: Harnessing the Transnational to Empower the Individual 7. Secular Nation/ Imaginary Ummah: Chinese Muslims in the National Public 8. An Ummah of Individuals
Biography
Alexander Blair Stewart works at the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum and is Visiting Lecturer of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, US.
